[Teaching basic life support maneuvers in students of a training cycle, is the quality of the maneuvers maintained...

To evaluate the quality of basic life support after a standardized training process and study their short-term evolution.

Experimental study with students from the training cycles of Higher Technician in Physical Conditioning and Higher Technician in Teaching and Socio-Sports Animation of the Colegio de la Trinidad from Córdoba. An initial evaluation is carried out, an evaluation of 15 days after training and another 30 days later; consisting of an evaluation by a theoretical test, and a practical evaluation of 2min of CPR. For the development of practical evaluations, we used the Resusci Anne® QCPR simulator. The main outcome variable is the global percentage of CPR obtained using the SimPad SkillReporter®.

We study 45 students, 71.1% of them male. Statistically significant differences are observed in the total theoretical score of the initial evaluation and the 15 days evaluation (7.81 vs. 6.82 points; P<.0001), and between the 15-day and 30-day evaluation (6.82 vs. 7.66 points; P<.0001); and in the overall percentage of CPR between the initial evaluation and the 15-day evaluation (27 vs. 49 points; P=.008) and between the initial evaluation and the 30 days evaluation (27 vs. 6.15 points; P<.0001).

The CPR quality improves after training, being close to the quality standards established by the ERC.