key: cord-0771782-vvv7r47y
authors: Ikeda, Akihiro; Tochino, Yoshihiro; Nishihata, Tomoya; Oku, Sachiko; Shuto, Taichi
title: Combined online and offline basic life support workshop with infection prevention and control for COVID‐19
date: 2022-04-19
journal: J Gen Fam Med
DOI: 10.1002/jgf2.538
sha: e1486f2c5c5f37b1cdd12ecde595d01ed4f18c2e
doc_id: 771782
cord_uid: vvv7r47y

The coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak has made it difficult to hold face‐to‐face BLS training sessions at university. Even in this limited situation, the effective use of combined online video course and offline training can contribute to gaining participants’ confidence in conducting BLS and improving mindset than before.[Image: see text]

To the Editor, Recovery after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is still one of the most important public health concerns around the world 1,2 .

Immediate recognition and delivery of high-quality basic life support (BLS) is one of the most critical factors in survival from OHCA 3 .

Survival rates after bystander-witnessed shockable OHCA widely ranged from 11.7% to 47.4% 1 . Based on this evidence, the "Life Support Club (LSC)" was organized at Osaka City University School of Medicine to enable people in the community and medical students to learn BLS. Since then, we have conducted BLS training sessions more than twenty times a year.

However, the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak has made it difficult to hold face-to-face training sessions at university 4 . Even under such circumstances, the levels of willingness to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation have not decreased 5 . To resolve this difficult situation, we tried to provide a combined online-and-offline-based BLS workshop.

The participants were first-year medical students at Osaka City University School of Medicine, and the instructors were fourth-year medical students. We used Resusci® Anne manikin for training. In previous years, two instructors and two students were assigned to each booth, but this year, we decided to assign only one instructor and one student to avoid overcrowding. The workshop was im- 

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