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Basic life support (BLS) skills are crucial not only for healthcare workers but for all lay people as well. Timely recognition of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the initiation of BLS by bystanders before the arrival of healthcare personnel can improve survival.
There are several methods of spreading BLS skills and improve BLS skill retention among lay people. One of these methods can be educating school children. The introduction of mandatory BLS education in schools was very effective in some European countries to increase the rate of bystander BLS.
The current study aims to investigate the efficacy of a BLS training and BLS curriculum among high school children in Hungary. Moreover, the investigators would like to optimise factors influencing skill retention in this first responder group and aim to compare two types of teaching methods: feedback given by the instructor or software-based feedback on the efficacy of chest compressions during the course.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Instructor feedback | Active Comparator | BLS training participants will receive feedback from an experienced instructor certified by European Resuscitation Council on the depth and frequency of chest compressions, duty cycle, chest recoil and the quality of ventilation. |
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| Software feedback | Experimental | BLS training participants will receive feedback based on a software (InnoMed CardioAid-1 Trainer AED, Innomed Inc., Budapest, Hungary) on the quality of chest compression (exact frequency, depth of chest compression, chest recoil and duty cycle) and tidal volume during ventilation. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Software based feedback | Other | Feedback is given by the data of a software (InnoMed CardioAid-1 Trainer AED, Innomed Inc., Budapest, Hungary). |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| End of training BLS skill assessment based on a checklist | BLS skills measured right after the training based on a checklist including the most important steps of BLS and quality of chest compression. The assessment will be performed by two instructors and the software of InnoMed CardioAid-1 Trainer AED, Innomed Inc., Budapest, Hungary. | up to two hours |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| BLS skill assessment after 2 months based on a checklist | BLS skills measured 2 months after the training based on a checklist including the most important steps of BLS and quality of chest compression. The assessment will be performed by two instructors and the software of InnoMed CardioAid-1 Trainer AED, Innomed Inc., Budapest, Hungary. | 2 months |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Uzonka Szabolcsi | Contact | +361458680 | szabolcsiu@gmail.com | |
| Enikő Kovács, PhD | Contact | +36206632035 | kovacs.eniko2@med.semmelweis-univ.hu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Endre Zima, PhD | Semmelweis University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Óbudai Gimnázium | Recruiting | Budapest | Hungary |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 38439933 | Derived | Maar C, Zima E, Nagy B, Pal-Jakab A, Szvath P, Kiss B, Frituz G, Gal J, Merkely B, Kovacs E. The investigation of the efficiency of basic life support education among high school students: Protocol, design and implementation of an interventional, prospective longitudinal, individually randomised, parallel 1:1 grouped trial. Resusc Plus. 2024 Feb 28;18:100585. doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2024.100585. eCollection 2024 Jun. |
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| Instructor feedback | Other | Feedback is given by the opinion and observation of an experienced instructor. |
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| BLS skill assessment after 6 months based on a checklist | BLS skills measured 6 months after the training based on a checklist including the most important steps of BLS and quality of chest compression. The assessment will be performed by two instructors and the software of InnoMed CardioAid-1 Trainer AED, Innomed Inc., Budapest, Hungary. | 6 months |