Group Size in Basic Life Support (BLS) Courses

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Resuscitation; Educational Problems
• Interventions: Other: errors made in one BLS session

• Registration Number: NCT03773861
• Lead Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-28
• Study Start: 2018-12-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-12-11
• Study First Posted: 2018-12-12
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-31
• Study Completion: 2019-12-31
• Status Verified: 2021-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-02-02
• Last Update Posted: 2021-02-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 64

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Participants	errors made in one BLS session	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The threshold of number of course participants in a BLS educational session	BLS educational session 10 minutes	How many volunteers can be overseen by one instructor who still is able to correctly identify and correct serious BLS errors of all course participants.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Bern; 🇨🇭 Bern, Switzerland