Effectiveness of teaching Pediatric Basic Life Support to lay people and health professionals in a community

Accidents like choking and drowning are important causes of death in the children range due to its quickness resulting in a Cardiorespiratory Arrest in the extrahospitalar setting. BLS procedures are importance in these scenarios in a way of improving survival of these patients and its fundamental that the general population is capable of performing those measures, but there is a deficit in populations knowledge of which measures should be adopted in pediatric emergency. In this context, this prospective observational study has the objective of analyzing effectivity of teaching Pediatric BLS techniques for adults that have frequent contact with children. Questionnaires were applied before and after the practical and theoretical activities, after signing the informed term of consent, these questionnaires were then analyzed to appreciate the impacts. 172 answers were obtained in the “pre-training” questionnaire and 122 in the “post-training”. After comparative analyzes, we observed an increase in the number of people that declarated being more capable to apply BLS procedures and to teach someone after performing the activities. We conclude that the teaching of the main basic measures that are needed to be applied in emergency settings is of simple executions and reproduction, and the spreading of this knowledge is ideal in places frequented by large number of populations that are not health workers and have frequent contact with children aiming in a quick recognition of emergency settings with quick implementations of necessary procedures and, consequently, a improval in survival and reduction of neurological sequels.