ABCDE approach to victims by lifeguards: How do they manage a critical patient? A cross sectional simulation study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Decision-making in emergencies is a multifactorial process based on the rescuer, patient, setting and resources. The eye-tracking system is a proven method for assessing decision-making processes that have been used in different fields of science. Our aim was to evaluate the lifeguards' capacity to perform the ABCDE (Airway-Breathing-Circulation-Disability-Exposure) approach when facing a simulated critically ill-drowned victim.

Methods

A cross-sectional simulation study was designed to assess the skills and sequence of the ABCDE approach by 20 professional lifeguards. They had to assess a victim and act according to his/her clinical status by following the ABCDE primary assessment approach. The two kinds of variables were recorder: those related to the quality

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Mendez F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6490899 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature