Improving the quality of training paramedics by means of cadavers - a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Paramedics are authorised to perform emergency procedures, including trauma assessment according to global standards. The aim of the study was to answer the question whether the use of cadavers in teaching practical competencies to medical rescue students, in the field of trauma assessment, is necessary as a supplement to learning in simulated conditions with the use of mannequins.

Methods

Research included several stages. The first stage was conduction of classes for 27 students in the field of rapid trauma assessment, in accordance with the guidelines of the International Trauma Life Support. In the second stage, a plan of a test in which students had to perform an analogous procedure of rapid trauma assessment, but with the use of cadavers, human unfixed specim

SUBMITTER: Leszczynski P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7836173 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature