Education

Question 1

What are the core elements of BLS training?

Answer 1

Willingness to start CPR, including an understanding of personal and environmental risk
• Recognition of unconsciousness, gasping or agonal breathing in unresponsive individuals by assessment of responsiveness, open- ing of the airway and assessment of breathing to confirm cardiac arrest.
Good quality chest compressions (adherence to rate, depth, full recoil and minimising hands-off time) and rescue breathing (ven- tilation time and volume)
• Feedback/prompts (human feedback within the CPR-team and/or from devices) during CPR training to improve skill acquisition and retention during basic life support training.

Question 2

What type of CPR do you teach?

Answer 2

Ideally - full, minimum - compression only.

Question 3

For those likely to witness cardiac arrest, how frequent should re-training be?

Answer 3

Within 3-12 months after