Evaluation of Basic Life Support Retention Rate in a two year study

Author:Dr. Mihai Negrea, MDCoordinators:Dr. Cristian Boeriu, PHD, Dr. Emilia Turucz, MD

What do We do?

• OSMU and SMURD - Mures Training Center organize together Emergency Medicine Courses for over 5 years

• ALS Summer School Is the largest&complex program on medical education for students

• Training for SMURD Volunteers

• Training for non medical persons: Pupils, school teachers, kindergarten children, adults

Why do we do it?• Over 380 thousand people have

Cardiac Arrest every year in USA

• Over 700 thousand people have cardiac arrest every year in Europe

• 280 000 die every year in USA

• 275 000 are treated every year by EMT`s in Europe

This are our Goals

• To make efficient courses

• To have an efficient, reliable, cheap method of evaluation

• To have long term high retention rate

How?• We have built a micro-website for

testing and data collection www.osmu.ro/testare

• We used an web based email service (www.mailchimp.com) for communication

• We’ve made standard tests for our students which we used to evaluate them on different time intervals

• We’ve followed the ILCOR and ERC guidelines

2 Lots

Marisiensis 2011• 25 dentistry students

• BLS plus elements of ALS

• Theoretic Course, Practice with instructors and demonstration, One day training

Volunteers• 78 appliances for the Course

• 50 graduating the course

• 18 medical students,3 MD’s,29 other

• Theoretic course, Practice with instructors and demo(2days), Work practice with a predefined tasks.

What we did?

Marisiensis:• We’ve tested them on

paper after course

• Online 6 month, 1 year, 2 years

Volunteers:• We’ve tested them on

paper pre-course, after-course

• Online 6 months, 1 year

• 2 years still to come in November

Average correct response rate

PreCourse AfterCourse 6 months 1 year 2 years0

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75.5 78.8 78.3

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9389 86.5

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Marisiensis 2011Volunteers

But…

• We had low response rates

• Volunteer lot: 36-40%

• Marisiensis 2011: 20-28%

Conclusions• We teach very efficient BLS courses over 92% average in

post-Course testing

• For those who participate in the Volunteer training program Retention Rate Loss is insignificant even after 1 year

• For the Marisiensis Lot the lost of information was significant at 6 months time but didn`t change even after 2 years

• We could pinpoint the exact information that wasn`t transmitted correctly

We are good at teaching

And some other aspects

• Although online evaluation is cheap, reliable, efficient we still have to find out how to make people to collaborate

• All evaluations have to personalized so a database with all of our students should be the next step

• Over 50-60% response rate would be more acceptable

The End