Clinical trial NCT03773861: Group Size in Basic Life Support (BLS) Courses
Official title: Determining a Threshold for the Clinical and Cost-effectiveness of Group Size During Basic Life Support Courses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Educational Problems
Resuscitation
Lead sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-12-12
Enrollment: 64
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: The threshold of number of course participants in a BLS educational session
timeFrame: BLS educational session 10 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bern
country: Switzerland
facility: University Hospital Bern
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
name: Sabine Nabecker, M.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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