Group Size in Basic Life Support (BLS) Courses

NCT ID: NCT03773861

Last Updated: 2021-02-03

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

64 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-12-10

Study Completion Date

2019-12-31

Brief Summary

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Basic Life Support (BLS) is important for outcome in cardiac arrest.Therefore, it is crucial to improve the quality of education in resuscitation training. Better training will eventually lead to more effective CPR skills in course participants. BLS courses in both international resuscitation associations (European Resuscitation Council and American Heart Association are typically taught in small groups of 6 participants. In reality group sizes of up to 10 participants are used, because these courses are highly demanded and cost intensive. There is no evidence for the effective group size to be clinical and cost effective. Therefore the investigators perform this prospective study to determine the maximum number of participants an instructor can oversee without missing more than 20% of errors made during an instructional BLS session.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Educational Problems Resuscitation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Participants

Active BLS- Instructors at the Bern Simulation and CPR- Center (BeSiC), at the Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. Participants have to oversee a BLS instructional session, where standardized errors are performed by trained volunteers.

Group Type OTHER

errors made in one BLS session

Intervention Type OTHER

BLS instructors have to oversee a standardized BLS training session, where standardized errors are made by trained volunteers.

Interventions

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errors made in one BLS session

BLS instructors have to oversee a standardized BLS training session, where standardized errors are made by trained volunteers.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Active BLS- Instructors at the Bern Simulation and CPR-Center (BeSiC), at the Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

Exclusion Criteria

* Decline to participate
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sabine Nabecker, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Locations

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University Hospital Bern

Bern, , Switzerland

Site Status

Countries

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Switzerland

References

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Perkins GD, Handley AJ, Koster RW, Castren M, Smyth MA, Olasveengen T, Monsieurs KG, Raffay V, Grasner JT, Wenzel V, Ristagno G, Soar J; Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation section Collaborators. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015: Section 2. Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation. Resuscitation. 2015 Oct;95:81-99. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.07.015. Epub 2015 Oct 15. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26477420 (View on PubMed)

Beck S, Issleib M, Daubmann A, Zollner C. Peer education for BLS-training in schools? Results of a randomized-controlled, noninferiority trial. Resuscitation. 2015 Sep;94:85-90. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.06.026. Epub 2015 Jul 14.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26184655 (View on PubMed)

Cendan JC, Silver M, Ben-David K. Changing the student clerkship from traditional lectures to small group case-based sessions benefits the student and the faculty. J Surg Educ. 2011 Mar-Apr;68(2):117-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2010.09.011.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21338967 (View on PubMed)

Chamberlain DA, Hazinski MF; European Resuscitation Council; American Heart Association; Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada; Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa; Australia and New Zealand Resuscitation Council; Consejo Latino-Americano de Resusucitacion. Education in resuscitation: an ILCOR symposium: Utstein Abbey: Stavanger, Norway: June 22-24, 2001. Circulation. 2003 Nov 18;108(20):2575-94. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000099898.11954.3B. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 14623795 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Req- 2017- 00577

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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