Training approaches for the deployment of a mechanical chest compression device: a randomised controlled manikin study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the effect of training strategy on team deployment of a mechanical chest compression device.

Design

Randomised controlled manikin trial.

Setting

Large teaching hospital in the UK.

Participants

Twenty teams, each comprising three clinicians. Participating individuals were health professionals with intermediate or advanced resuscitation training.

Interventions

Teams were randomised in a 1:1 ratio to receive either standard mechanical chest compression device training or pit-crew device training. Training interventions lasted up to 1 h. Performance was measured immediately after training in a standardised simulated cardiac arrest scenario in which teams were required to deploy a mechanical chest compression device.

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SUBMITTER: Couper K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879816 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature