Effectiveness of Instructional Interventions for Hemorrhage Control Readiness for Laypersons in the Public Access and Tourniquet Training Study (PATTS): A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

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.

Objective

To 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

SUBMITTER: Goralnick E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583882 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature