Resuscitation
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of two retraining strategies on nursing students' acquisition and retention of BLS/AED skills: A cluster randomised trial.
To determine and compare the effects of two different retraining strategies on nursing students' acquisition and retention of BLS/AED skills. ⋯ This study demonstrated that using a student-directed strategy to retrain BLS/AED skills has resulted in a higher proportion of nursing students achieving and retaining competency in BLS/AED at three months when compared to an instructor-directed strategy.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
A quantitative analysis of out-of-hospital pediatric and adolescent resuscitation quality - A report from the ROC epistry-cardiac arrest.
High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may improve survival. The quality of CPR performed during pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (p-OHCA) is largely unknown. The main objective of this study was to describe the quality of CPR performed during p-OHCA resuscitation attempts. ⋯ In this multi-center study, we have established that there are opportunities for professional rescuers to improve prehospital CPR quality. Encouragingly, CCF and depth both increased significantly over time.