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CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?

BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is gaining more importance for medical students. There were many attempts to improve the basic life support (BLS) skills in medical students, some being rather successful, some less. We developed a new problem based learning curriculum, where...

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Autores principales: Robak, Oliver, Kulnig, Johannes, Sterz, Fritz, Uray, Thomas, Haugk, Moritz, Kliegel, Andreas, Holzer, Michael, Herkner, Harald, Laggner, Anton N, Domanovits, Hans
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1479344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16646966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-6-27
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author Robak, Oliver
Kulnig, Johannes
Sterz, Fritz
Uray, Thomas
Haugk, Moritz
Kliegel, Andreas
Holzer, Michael
Herkner, Harald
Laggner, Anton N
Domanovits, Hans
author_facet Robak, Oliver
Kulnig, Johannes
Sterz, Fritz
Uray, Thomas
Haugk, Moritz
Kliegel, Andreas
Holzer, Michael
Herkner, Harald
Laggner, Anton N
Domanovits, Hans
author_sort Robak, Oliver
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description BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is gaining more importance for medical students. There were many attempts to improve the basic life support (BLS) skills in medical students, some being rather successful, some less. We developed a new problem based learning curriculum, where students had to teach CPR to cardiac arrest survivors in order to improve the knowledge about life support skills of trainers and trainees. METHODS: Medical students who enrolled in our curriculum had to pass a 2 semester problem based learning session about the principles of cardiac arrest, CPR, BLS and defibrillation (CPR-D). Then the students taught cardiac arrest survivors who were randomly chosen out of a cardiac arrest database of our emergency department. Both, the student and the Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) survivor were asked about their skills and knowledge via questionnaires immediately after the course. The questionnaires were then used to evaluate if this new teaching strategy is useful for learning CPR via a problem-based-learning course. The survey was grouped into three categories, namely "Use of AED", "CPR-D" and "Training". In addition, there was space for free answers where the participants could state their opinion in their own words, which provided some useful hints for upcoming programs. RESULTS: This new learning-by-teaching strategy was highly accepted by all participants, the students and the SCD survivors. Most SCD survivors would use their skills in case one of their relatives goes into cardiac arrest (96%). Furthermore, 86% of the trainees were able to deal with failures and/or disturbances by themselves. On the trainer's side, 96% of the students felt to be well prepared for the course and were considered to be competent by 96% of their trainees. CONCLUSION: We could prove that learning by teaching CPR is possible and is highly accepted by the students. By offering a compelling appreciation of what CPR can achieve in using survivors from SCD as trainees made them go deeper into the subject of resuscitation, what also might result in a longer lasting benefit than regular lecture courses in CPR.
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spelling pubmed-14793442006-06-15 CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students? Robak, Oliver Kulnig, Johannes Sterz, Fritz Uray, Thomas Haugk, Moritz Kliegel, Andreas Holzer, Michael Herkner, Harald Laggner, Anton N Domanovits, Hans BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is gaining more importance for medical students. There were many attempts to improve the basic life support (BLS) skills in medical students, some being rather successful, some less. We developed a new problem based learning curriculum, where students had to teach CPR to cardiac arrest survivors in order to improve the knowledge about life support skills of trainers and trainees. METHODS: Medical students who enrolled in our curriculum had to pass a 2 semester problem based learning session about the principles of cardiac arrest, CPR, BLS and defibrillation (CPR-D). Then the students taught cardiac arrest survivors who were randomly chosen out of a cardiac arrest database of our emergency department. Both, the student and the Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) survivor were asked about their skills and knowledge via questionnaires immediately after the course. The questionnaires were then used to evaluate if this new teaching strategy is useful for learning CPR via a problem-based-learning course. The survey was grouped into three categories, namely "Use of AED", "CPR-D" and "Training". In addition, there was space for free answers where the participants could state their opinion in their own words, which provided some useful hints for upcoming programs. RESULTS: This new learning-by-teaching strategy was highly accepted by all participants, the students and the SCD survivors. Most SCD survivors would use their skills in case one of their relatives goes into cardiac arrest (96%). Furthermore, 86% of the trainees were able to deal with failures and/or disturbances by themselves. On the trainer's side, 96% of the students felt to be well prepared for the course and were considered to be competent by 96% of their trainees. CONCLUSION: We could prove that learning by teaching CPR is possible and is highly accepted by the students. By offering a compelling appreciation of what CPR can achieve in using survivors from SCD as trainees made them go deeper into the subject of resuscitation, what also might result in a longer lasting benefit than regular lecture courses in CPR. BioMed Central 2006-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1479344/ /pubmed/16646966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-6-27 Text en Copyright © 2006 Robak et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Robak, Oliver
Kulnig, Johannes
Sterz, Fritz
Uray, Thomas
Haugk, Moritz
Kliegel, Andreas
Holzer, Michael
Herkner, Harald
Laggner, Anton N
Domanovits, Hans
CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
title CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
title_full CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
title_fullStr CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
title_full_unstemmed CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
title_short CPR in medical schools: learning by teaching BLS to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
title_sort cpr in medical schools: learning by teaching bls to sudden cardiac death survivors – a promising strategy for medical students?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1479344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16646966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-6-27
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