Self-learning basic life support: A randomised controlled trial on learning conditions.

Aim Of The Study: To investigate whether pure self-learning without instructor support, resulted in the same BLS-competencies as facilitator-led learning, when using the same commercially available video BLS teaching kit.

Methods: First-year medical students were randomised to either BLS self-learning without supervision or facilitator-led BLS-teaching. Both groups used the MiniAnne kit (Laerdal Medical, Stavanger, Norway) in the students' local language.

Good quality of oral anticoagulation treatment in general practice using international normalised ratio point of care testing.

Introduction: Oral anticoagulation treatment (OACT) with warfarin is common in general practice. Increasingly, international normalised ratio (INR) point of care testing (POCT) is being used to manage patients. The aim of this study was to describe and analyse the quality of OACT with warfarin in general practice in the Capital Region of Denmark using INR POCT.