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Basic Life Support Knowledge among Junior Medical and Dental Students, Communication Channels, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background and objective: The prognosis of cardiac arrest victims strongly depends on the prompt provision of Basic Life Support (BLS) maneuvers. Medical students should therefore be proficient in this area, but many lack essential BLS knowledge. The goal of this prospective, closed web-based study...

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Autores principales: Ricci, Gaëtan, Herren, Tara, Taramarcaz, Victor, Schnetzler, Nicolas, Dupuis, François, Schiffer, Eduardo, Suppan, Mélanie, Suppan, Laurent
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9416785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36013540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58081073
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author Ricci, Gaëtan
Herren, Tara
Taramarcaz, Victor
Schnetzler, Nicolas
Dupuis, François
Schiffer, Eduardo
Suppan, Mélanie
Suppan, Laurent
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Herren, Tara
Taramarcaz, Victor
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Schiffer, Eduardo
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Suppan, Laurent
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description Background and objective: The prognosis of cardiac arrest victims strongly depends on the prompt provision of Basic Life Support (BLS) maneuvers. Medical students should therefore be proficient in this area, but many lack essential BLS knowledge. The goal of this prospective, closed web-based study was to determine whether a short intervention designed to motivate first-year medical students to follow a blended BLS course could lead to a significant improvement in BLS knowledge in the following year. Materials and Methods: A fully automated web-based questionnaire was administered to second-year medical students one year after they had been given the opportunity of following a blended BLS course (e-learning and practice session). The primary outcome was the difference, on a 6-question score assessing essential BLS knowledge, between these students and those from the 2020 promotion since the latter had not been offered the optional BLS course. Results: The score was similar between the two study periods (3.3 ± 0.8 in 2022 vs. 3.0 ± 1.0 in 2020, p = 0.114), but no firm conclusion could be drawn since participation was much lower than expected (17.9% in 2022 vs. 43.7% in 2020, p < 0.001). Therefore, a second questionnaire was created and administered to understand the reasons underlying this low participation. Conclusions: There was a lack of improvement in BLS knowledge in second-year medical students after the introduction of an optional introductory BLS course in the first-year curriculum, but the limited participation rate precludes drawing definitive conclusions. Ineffective communication appears to be the cause of this low participation rate, but a lack of motivation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be ruled out. Corrective actions should be considered to enhance communication, restore motivation, and ultimately improve BLS knowledge among medical and dental students.
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spelling pubmed-94167852022-08-27 Basic Life Support Knowledge among Junior Medical and Dental Students, Communication Channels, and the COVID-19 Pandemic Ricci, Gaëtan Herren, Tara Taramarcaz, Victor Schnetzler, Nicolas Dupuis, François Schiffer, Eduardo Suppan, Mélanie Suppan, Laurent Medicina (Kaunas) Article Background and objective: The prognosis of cardiac arrest victims strongly depends on the prompt provision of Basic Life Support (BLS) maneuvers. Medical students should therefore be proficient in this area, but many lack essential BLS knowledge. The goal of this prospective, closed web-based study was to determine whether a short intervention designed to motivate first-year medical students to follow a blended BLS course could lead to a significant improvement in BLS knowledge in the following year. Materials and Methods: A fully automated web-based questionnaire was administered to second-year medical students one year after they had been given the opportunity of following a blended BLS course (e-learning and practice session). The primary outcome was the difference, on a 6-question score assessing essential BLS knowledge, between these students and those from the 2020 promotion since the latter had not been offered the optional BLS course. Results: The score was similar between the two study periods (3.3 ± 0.8 in 2022 vs. 3.0 ± 1.0 in 2020, p = 0.114), but no firm conclusion could be drawn since participation was much lower than expected (17.9% in 2022 vs. 43.7% in 2020, p < 0.001). Therefore, a second questionnaire was created and administered to understand the reasons underlying this low participation. Conclusions: There was a lack of improvement in BLS knowledge in second-year medical students after the introduction of an optional introductory BLS course in the first-year curriculum, but the limited participation rate precludes drawing definitive conclusions. Ineffective communication appears to be the cause of this low participation rate, but a lack of motivation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be ruled out. Corrective actions should be considered to enhance communication, restore motivation, and ultimately improve BLS knowledge among medical and dental students. MDPI 2022-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9416785/ /pubmed/36013540 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58081073 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9416785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36013540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58081073
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