Danish first aid books compliance with the new evidence-based non-resuscitative first aid guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) released new guidelines on resuscitation in 2015. For the first time, the guidelines included a separate chapter on first aid for laypersons. We analysed the current major Danish national first aid books to identify potential inconsistencies between the current books and the new evidence-based first aid guidelines.

Methods

We identified first aid books from all the first aid courses offered by major Danish suppliers. Based on the new ERC first aid guidelines, we developed a checklist of 26 items within 16 different categories to assess the content; this checklist was adapted following the principle of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive questioning. To assess the agreement between four raters, Fleiss' kappa test

SUBMITTER: Jensen TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764019 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature