Resuscitation
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Evaluation of school pupils' resuscitation performance after different types of training relative to the effects of training frequency (annually vs. biannually), starting age (10 vs. 13 years) and facilitator (emergency physician vs. teacher). ⋯ Pupils starting at age 10 are able to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation with one annual training course only. After a 60-min CPR-training update, teachers are able to provide courses successfully. Early training reduces anxieties about making mistakes and markedly increases participants' willingness to help. Courses almost doubled the confidence of pupils that what they had learned would enable them to save lives.