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. 2017 Sep 12;17(1):161.
doi: 10.1186/s12909-017-1005-1.

Paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program in Latin-America: the RIBEPCI experience

Jesús López-Herce  1   2   3 , Martha M Matamoros  4 , Luis Moya  5 , Enma Almonte  6 , Diana Coronel  7 , Javier Urbano  8   9 , Ángel Carrillo  8   10   9 ; Red de Estudio Iberoamericano de estudio de la parada cardiorrespiratoria en la infancia (RIBEPCI); Jimena Del Castillo  11 , Santiago Mencía  11 , Ramón Moral  11 , Flora Ordoñez  4 , Carlos Sánchez  4 , Lina Lagos  4 , María Johnson  12 , Ovidio Mendoza  12 , Sandra Rodriguez  12
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Paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program in Latin-America: the RIBEPCI experience

Jesús López-Herce et al. BMC Med Educ. .

Abstract

Background: To describe the design and to present the results of a paediatric and neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program adapted to Latin-America.

Methods: A paediatric CPR coordinated training project was set up in several Latin-American countries with the instructional and scientific support of the Spanish Group for Paediatric and Neonatal CPR. The program was divided into four phases: CPR training and preparation of instructors; training for instructors; supervised teaching; and independent teaching. Instructors from each country participated in the development of the next group in the following country. Paediatric Basic Life Support (BLS), Paediatric Intermediate (ILS) and Paediatric Advanced (ALS) courses were organized in each country adapted to local characteristics.

Results: Five Paediatric Resuscitation groups were created sequentially in Honduras (2), Guatemala, Dominican Republican and Mexico. During 5 years, 6 instructors courses (94 students), 64 Paediatric BLS Courses (1409 students), 29 Paediatrics ILS courses (626 students) and 89 Paediatric ALS courses (1804 students) were given. At the end of the program all five groups are autonomous and organize their own instructor courses.

Conclusions: Training of autonomous Paediatric CPR groups with the collaboration and scientific assessment of an expert group is a good model program to develop Paediatric CPR training in low- and middle income countries. Participation of groups of different countries in the educational activities is an important method to establish a cooperation network.

Keywords: Pediatric life support courses; Pediatric resuscitation; Resuscitation courses; Resuscitation education; Resuscitation training.

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Conflict of interest statement

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The study did not include data of patients. All students agree with the study maintaining the anonymity. The study was approved by the ethics committee of all institutions that participated in the study. (Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala; Hospital General Plaza de la Salud. Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana and Centro Nacional para la Salud de la Infancia y la Adolescencia. México Distrito Federal, México).

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Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Phases of the project
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