CPR Skill Retention of First Aid Attendants within the Workplace

Andérson, Gregory S.; Gaetz, Michael; Statz, Cara

doi:10.1017/s1049023x1200088x

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“…The length of training and the absence of training refresher courses may have been insufficient to produce larger changes (cf. Anderson, Gaetz, Statz, & Kin, 2012). The quantitative measures may have been insufficiently sensitive to change.…”

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“…(Aveyard, Begh, Parsons, & West, 2012;Sagherian, Huedo-Medina, Pellowski, Eaton, & Johnson, 2016;Sullivan, Tetrault, Braithwaite, Turner, & Fiellin, 2011) and similar evidence specifically for resilience (Leppin et al, 2014;Robertson et al, 2015); however, programs that are longer and that are directed toward people with specific problems or issues can be expected to produce larger outcomes. There is also evidence that skills are enhanced when programs involve repeated skill review and ongoing training (Anderson et al, 2012). Future researchers should consider engaging training refreshers to assess for the incremental impact of additional training.…”

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A longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal police

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A longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal police

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“…Furthermore, prior research on first aid and basic life support courses have demonstrated significant skill decay over time. [20][21][22][23] B-Con's effectiveness has yet to be formally evaluated immediately after laypersons are trained or the retention of the knowledge and skills over time.…”

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Effectiveness of Instructional Interventions for Hemorrhage Control Readiness for Laypersons in the Public Access and Tourniquet Training Study (PATTS)

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IMPORTANCE Several national initiatives have emerged to empower laypersons to act as immediate responders to reduce preventable deaths from uncontrolled bleeding. Point-of-care instructional interventions have been developed in response to the scalability challenges associated with in-person training. However, to our knowledge, their effectiveness for hemorrhage control has not been established. OBJECTIVETo evaluate the effectiveness of different instructional point-of-care interventions and in-person training for hemorrhage control compared with no intervention and assess skill retention 3 to 9 months after hemorrhage control training. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This randomized clinical trial of 465 laypersons was conducted at a professional sports stadium in Massachusetts with capacity for 66 000 people and assessed correct tourniquet application by using different point-of-care interventions (audio kits and flashcards) and a Bleeding Control Basic (B-Con) course. Non-B-Con arms received B-Con training after initial testing (conducted from April 2017 to August 2017). Retesting for 303 participants (65%) was performed 3 to 9 months after training (October 2017 to January 2018) to evaluate B-Con retention. A logistic regression for demographic associations was performed for retention testing. INTERVENTIONS Participants were randomized into 4 arms: instructional flashcards, audio kits with embedded flashcards, B-Con, and control. All participants received B-Con training to later assess retention.MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Correct tourniquet application in a simulated scenario. RESULTSOf the 465 participants, 189 (40.7%) were women and the mean (SD) age was 46.3 (16.1) years. For correct tourniquet application, B-Con (88% correct application [n = 122]; P < .001) was superior to control (n = 104 [16%]) while instructional flashcards (n = 117 [19.6%]) and audio kit (n = 122 [23%]) groups were not. More than half of participants in point-of-care arms did not use the educational prompts as intended. Of 303 participants (65%) who were assessed 3 to 9 months after undergoing B-Con training, 165 (54.5%) could correctly apply a tourniquet. Over this period, there was no further skill decay in the adjusted model that treated time as either linear (odds ratio [OR], 0.98; 95% CI, 0.95-1.03) or quadratic (OR, 1.00; 95% CI, 1.00-1.00). The only demographic that was associated with correct application at retention was age; adults aged 18 to 35 years (n = 58; OR, 2.39; 95% CI, 1.21-4.72) and aged 35 to 55 years (n = 107; OR, 1.77; 95% CI, 1.04-3.02) were more likely to be efficacious than those older than 55 years (n = 138). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCEIn-person hemorrhage control training for laypersons is currently the most efficacious means of enabling bystanders to act to control hemorrhage. Laypersons can successfully perform tourniquet application after undergoing a 1-hour course. However, only 54.5% retain this skill after 3 to 9 months, suggesting that investigating refresher training or improved point-of-care instruc...

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“…Previous studies suggested that CPR skills declined faster than expected, 25,26 and that a repeated training course can obviously maintain CPR performance for a long time. 22,27 The CPR Guidelines recommend that skill performance should be reinforced more often with an interval of at most 12-24 months to maintain the quality of the rescuer's CPR.…”

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Effectiveness of simplified 15-min refresher BLS training program: A randomized controlled trial

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CPR Skill Retention of First Aid Attendants within the Workplace

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

A longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal police

A longitudinal assessment of the road to mental readiness training among municipal police

Effectiveness of Instructional Interventions for Hemorrhage Control Readiness for Laypersons in the Public Access and Tourniquet Training Study (PATTS)

Effectiveness of simplified 15-min refresher BLS training program: A randomized controlled trial

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