Hands-only CPR training for children, adolescents and adults at the school community: The kids save lives Brazil experience

The education of bystanders to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is crucial to improve the victim's survival and quality of life. KIDS SAVE LIVES BRAZIL program has trained children, adolescents, and adults of school communities to identify signals and symptoms as to take first actions in acute stroke, choking, and sudden cardiac arrest. The present longitudinal study assessed the success rate between a 45-min training using low-fidelity/low-cost manikins (1630 subjects, mean age 16 years, 38% male) and a 2-h training using high-fidelity manikins (347 subjects, mean age 27 years, 32% male) on the development of the following competencies (yes/no): checking local safety, checking victim's responsiveness, calling for help, checking victim's breathing, and performing effective chest compression (straight arms and hands positioning on the chest, compression velocity, depth and return).

Source: Resuscitation - October 1, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Naomi Kondo Nakagawa, Katia Moreno Garcia Oliveira, Ana Paula Boaventura, Thatiane Facholi Polastri, Mariangela Macchione, Regiani Carvalho-Oliveira, Marcelo Calderaro, Ludhmila Abrah ão Hajjar, Heraldo Possolo Souza, Eduardo Vieira Motta, Priscila Aikaw Tags: PT39 Source Type: research