Aim: In December 2005 the new guidelines for resuscitation were released and a new curriculum for the teaching of basic life support (BLS) was adopted. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the new guidelines and teaching curriculum on the BLS skill retention of medical students 1 year following their initial training.
Methods: The study was conducted in two consecutive academic years and compared BLS skill retention of two groups of medical students in their fourth year of medicine. The first group (group A) was taught the old guidelines with the old curriculum in the year 2005 and was re-assessed in 2006, and the second group (group B) was taught the new guidelines with the new curriculum in the year 2006 and was re-assessed in 2007.
Results: Significantly more students in group B assessed signs of life, located the compression area correctly and performed good quality chest compressions compared with the group taught the old guidelines with the old curriculum.
Conclusions: The most important BLS skill, good quality chest compressions, was retained by significantly more students who were taught the new resuscitation guidelines according to the new curriculum.
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