Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Vital Function Failure Refresher Training Strengthen Healthcare Professionals’ Self-Assessed Abilities: A Questionnaire-Based Pilot Study

Refresher training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and recognition of patients with failure in vital functions are often completed on separate occasions. In this study, 63 healthcare professionals participated in a pilot course and self-assessed their abilities before and after the course. Combining training scenarios with different diagnoses of patient cases provided a real-life learning environment. The training strengthened the perceived ability of healthcare professionals to respond to an acute situation of a patient with failure of vital functions.