Learning to resuscitate at school. Study in 8-12 year-old schoolchildren.

Objective: To quantitatively assess the learning capacity of school children aged between 8-12 years in basic life support (theory and practice) after a feasible school training programme.

Material And Methods: Quasi-experimental study with a convenience sample of 567 pupils in 3rd and 5th year of Primary Education, and first year of Compulsory Secondary Education, from 3 public schools in Galicia. They received 2h (one theoretical and another practical) of basic life support training by their Physical Education teachers, as part of the school program.

Training frequency for educating schoolchildren in basic life support: very brief 4-month rolling-refreshers versus annual retraining-a 2-year prospective longitudinal trial.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of 4-month rolling-refreshers and annual retraining in basic life support (BLS) on a sample of schoolchildren.

Design: Prospective longitudinal trial.

Setting And Participants: Four hundred and seventy-two schoolchildren (8-12 years old).

[Learning to resuscitate at school. Study in 8-12 year-old schoolchildren].

Objective: To quantitatively assess the learning capacity of school children aged between 8-12 years in basic life support (theory and practice) after a feasible school training programme.

Material And Methods: Quasi-experimental study with a convenience sample of 567 pupils in 3rd, 5th and 1st year of Primary Education, and Compulsory Secondary Education, respectively, from 3 public schools in Galicia. They received 2h (one theoretical and another practical) of basic life support training by their Physical Education teachers, as part of the school program.

[A first step to teaching basic life support in schools: Training the teachers].

Introduction: Teachers may have an essential role in basic life support (BLS) training in schoolchildren. However, few data are available about their BLS learning abilities.

Aim: To quantitatively assess the quality of BLS when performed by school teachers after a brief and simple training program.