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Concurrent Block #7

Resuscitation Education

Approaches to Increase Bystander CPR and Engagement of Educators in School Cardiac Emergency Preparedness

Effective teaching – Are we setting up our students for failure by teaching information not knowledge?

Friday, December 1, 2023
3:35 PM – 4:00 PM PST
Location: Town and Country Ballroom D
Summary: Learn how to increase confidence of students to perform CPR, why we perform CPR, and to offer simple additions to the established training programs to ensure students can properly perform CPR quickly, effectively to help increase patient survival.

Synopsis: According to recent surveys, more than 50% of the adult population in the United States know how to perform CPR, but only 40% of out of hospital cardiac arrest received bystander CPR. Our current course curriculums often do not effectively address the reasons bystanders are reluctant to get involved and perform CPR.

In addition to the traditional CPR courses that include hands-on practice, instructors need to emphasize the knowledge of why we perform CPR, and address bystander fears and the reluctance to perform CPR. When information is compiled or used to better understand facts or to perform a task, it becomes knowledge. Empowering students with knowledge used to react to emergencies can decrease fear response in bystanders and increase the willingness to help those in emergency scenarios. One of the most important questions in an end of class evaluation should be: “Does this class provide the confidence to perform CPR in an emergency?” If the answer is less than the highest rating, then the instructor did not give the student the knowledge needed to perform CPR effectively and without hesitation, even if the skill practice was perfect.

This presentation will provide examples of how to increase the confidence of students to perform CPR and why we perform CPR, and to offer simple additions to the established training programs to ensure students can properly perform CPR quickly, helping to increase patient survival.

Learning Objectives:

  • Techniques to ensure students learn CPR properly, concentration on proper hand placement, effective breathing and quick transfer of duties with multiple rescuers, facts with visual reminders on the effectiveness of CPR, physical effects of CPR, quick discussion of how the body uses air and blood to survive and how it is impacted by CPR. Finally, researching and adding facts that will enhance the knowledge of the instructor to pass to the student.
  • This presentation will include ways to educate citizens that can lead to a comprehensive change to a culture of excellence and improved CPR training in the community, schools and workplace.
  • This presentation will discuss how to implement three (3) elements of a comprehensive dispatch CPR and/or rapid dispatch program.
  • This presentation will discuss ways to advance Public Access AED placement and utilization.
  • This presentation will describe one or more survivor / rescuer stories that can be used to illustrate an effective chain of survival for cardiac arrest.