Key result
A 30-minute training equips all amateur referees to perform high-quality CPR and safely use AEDs.
Why the study?
The ability of football referees to perform CPR and use AEDs effectively after brief training was not well established.
Does a brief Basic Life Support training program improve CPR skills and AED use in amateur league football referees?
Does a brief Basic Life Support training program improve CPR skills and AED use in amateur league football referees?
A brief 30-minute Basic Life Support training program effectively enables amateur football referees to perform high-quality CPR and use an AED in simulated scenarios.
Brief training may boost referee CPR/AED skills in simulations; leaves open real-world impact and needs prospective trials.
pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a simulated sport incident scenario, after a brief training program.Material and Methods. Quasi-experimen-tal study with 35 amateur league football referees. A test – retest of related samples was carried out after the training program. Theoretical and hands-on session lasted 30 minutes, with 1/10 instructor/partici-pant ratio. CPR skills were measured using Wireless Skill Report software and AED use by means of a specific check list. Results. A third of sample knew what an AED is but only 8% knew how to use it. Af-ter training, all participants achieved 70% or higher CPR quality scores and were able to use AED properly (54.2% without any incidence). Mean time to discharge was shorter for participants who accomplished the quality goal (p=0.022).Conclusions. After a very brief and simple training program, football referees were able to perform a potentially effective CPR and use an AED correctly in a simulated scenario. Basic life support training should be implemented in football referees´ form-ative curriculum.
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Jorge-Soto et al. (2018) studied Cardiac arrest first response (naive to basic life support) (n=35). Brief Basic Life Support (BLS) training program vs. Pre-training baseline was evaluated on Achievement of ≥70% CPR quality scores and proper AED use in a simulated scenario. After a 30-minute training program, 100% of amateur football referees achieved 70% or higher CPR quality scores and were able to use an AED safely in under 2 minutes in a simulated scenario.
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