Can high school students teach their peers high quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?

Background: If adolescents can teach each other cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during school hours, this may be a cost-effective approach to CPR training. The aim of this study was to evaluate CPR quality among students trained by student instructors in CPR.

Material And Methods: Three high schools participated.

Effect of socioemotional stress on the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during advanced life support in a randomized manikin study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether socioemotional stress affects the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during advanced life support in a simulated manikin model.

Design: A randomized crossover trial with advanced life support performed in two different conditions, with and without exposure to socioemotional stress.

Setting: The study was conducted at the Stavanger Acute Medicine Foundation for Education and Research simulation center, Stavanger, Norway.

SNP detection exploiting multiple sources of redundancy in large EST collections improves validation rates.

Motivation: Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection exploiting redundancy in expressed sequence tag (EST) collections that arises from the presence of transcripts of the same gene from different individuals has been used to generate large collections of SNPs for many species. A second source of redundancy, namely that EST collections can contain multiple transcripts of the same gene from the same individual, can be exploited to distinguish true SNPs from sequencing error. In this article, we demonstrate with Atlantic salmon and pig EST collections that splitting the EST collection in two, detecting SNPs in both subsets, then accepting only cross-validated SNPs increases validation rates.