Advanced Cardiac Life Support Courses: Live actors do not improve training results compared with conventional manikins

Resuscitation

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 244-248

  Miotto, Heberth C ^a   Couto, Braulio R G M ^a,b   Goulart, Eugenio M A ^a   Amaral, Carlos Faria Santos ^a   Moreira, Maria da Consolacao V ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b University of Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Advanced Life Support (ALS); Basic Life Support (BLS); Bystander CPR; Education; Manikin; Megacode training; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MANIKINS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37849025528     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.07.031     Document Type: Article

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