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Curr Opin Crit Care · Jun 2009
ReviewImproving performance of emergency medical services personnel during resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients: the McMAID approach.
- Michael J Kellum.
- EMS, Mercy Health System, Janesville, Wisconsin, USA. Marcia@idcnet.com
- Curr Opin Crit Care. 2009 Jun 1;15(3):216-20.
Purpose Of ReviewThe article presents the method we developed to improve emergency medical service personnel training.Recent FindingsFollowing the introduction of new prehospital protocol for emergency medical services that initially dramatically improved survival of patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, we found that without an adequate training and retraining program, survival rates decreased. A new training methodology called McMAID was developed to improve the quality of the resuscitation effort.SummaryIt is possible to train personnel to routinely execute an organized resuscitation if the approach to training is modified.
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