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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, mass public events have been curtailed, including ones for teaching basic life support (BLS), like “World Restart a Heart Day”.
the University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences (Slovenia), organized a public BLS-training for children and adolescents under strict COVID-19 infection precautions (e.g., proof of negative test, vaccination status, masks, social distancing and a 1:4 ratio of BLS instructors to learners). The aim was to safely teach potential lay rescuers the basics of BLS using a gamified experience.
Overall, more than 90 children and adolescents participated in this chest compression only BLS-training. The vast majority reported enjoying the training (70%), being interested in the content of the training (97%), would repeat the training in the future (91%), reported feeling competent doing chest compressions (87%), and think it is very important to know how to help in sudden cardiac arrest (95%). These findings were consistent with a previous study from 2018.
The impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) manikin chest stiffness on motivation and CPR performance measures in children undergoing CPR training - A prospective, randomized, single-blind, controlled trial.
From game design elements to gamefulness: defining “gamification”.
in: MindTrek '11: proceedings of the 15th international academic MindTrek conference: envisioning future media environments. Association for Computing Machinery,
New York2011: 9-15
We gamified the BLS-training by using the “Quality CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (QCPR) race” (Laerdal Medical, Stavanger, Norway). This “QCPR race” game mode is a part of the “QCPR Training” mobile application (available for Android and iOS), which connects “Little Anne QCPR” manikins through Bluetooth to visualize real-time chest compression or “30:2” cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance. “QCPR race” includes important gamification features, like time pressure, gaining rewards, leaderboard, trophies etc. (Fig. 1), which engage and motivate learners to optimize performance when competing with others.
Evaluating quality, usability, evidence-based content, and gamification features in mobile learning apps designed to teach children basic life support: systematic search in app stores and content analysis.
In the context of BLS-training, these features offer learners an attractive way to learn and practice hands-only chest compression, as accurate performance is required to win the race against other “players”. The more accurate a player performs chest compression, measured by “Little Anne QCPR” manikin, the faster the ambulance car advances on the screen towards the finish line of the game.
Fig. 1Gamification features in “QCPR race” (using Apple iPad Pro 2018 with installed “QCPR Training” mobile application version 4.13.3).
Manikin manufactures are now launching BLS-teaching products that include gamification features in order to engage more young people. The use of gamified manikins in public BLS-training events should be considered as it adds value to learning BLS for children, adolescents and adults, and might be a suitable alternative to standard BLS public-encounters. Setting up gamified public education events requires: 1) commercially available manikins, and 2) additional equipment (e.g., smartphones or tablets with specific mobile applications installed) that connect to a computer monitor display. The number of manikins available for the event will determine how many people can learn BLS using them, for instance, the “QCPR Training” mobile application and “Little Anne QCPR” manikins, can connect to six (for smartphone) or twelve (for tablet) learners. Six learners are the recommended size to teach adult BLS-training.
Questions for further study include how long participants retain the skills, the costs and resources needed. Industry independent or open-resource solutions would be appreciated.
RG is ERC Director of Guidelines and ILCOR, and ILCOR Task Force chair Education Implementation and Team. Other authors (NF, RMC, LG, GŠ and PS) declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Funding
Dr. Masterson Creber is supported by NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research NIH/National Heart Lung Blood Institute R01HL152021 and NIH/NINDS R01NS123639.
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank all the children and adolescents who have participated in this event, the company Medival d.o.o. for borrowing us “Little Anne QCPR (Laerdal Medical, Stavanger, Norway)” manikins, colleagues (Koželj A, Donik B and Lovrenčič A) and nursing students (Tot L, Šprem S and Hajnrih N) for all their help.
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“All citizens of the world can save a life”—The World Restart a Heart (WRAH) initiative starts in 2018.
The impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) manikin chest stiffness on motivation and CPR performance measures in children undergoing CPR training - A prospective, randomized, single-blind, controlled trial.
From game design elements to gamefulness: defining “gamification”.
in: MindTrek '11: proceedings of the 15th international academic MindTrek conference: envisioning future media environments. Association for Computing Machinery,
New York2011: 9-15
Evaluating quality, usability, evidence-based content, and gamification features in mobile learning apps designed to teach children basic life support: systematic search in app stores and content analysis.
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