Impact of the European Paediatric Life Support Course

Impact of the European Paediatric Life Support workAbstractBackground Even though anaesthetists do not resuscitate children on a cursory basis, they need to perform paediatric life support regularly due to their different duties. As the friendship of inter bailiwick guidelines varies widely, highly standardized European Paediatric Life Support (EPLS) caterpillar treads have been introduced to improve standards of care. This national survey among Austrian anaesthetists and EPLS course of action participants evaluated the impact of this course at the end of the guideline period 2005-2010.Methods after approval by the institutional review board an online survey about paediatric resuscitation guidelines was sent to EPLS course participants of the guideline period 2005 (EPLS host) and members of the Austrian Society of Anaesthesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (-GARI) two weeks before publication of the resuscitations guidelines 2010. Respondents without an EPLS course were assi gned to the non-EPLS group.Results Of 333 respondents 247 finished the survey. One hundred eighty five persons were assigned to EPLS group and 62 to the non-EPLS group. Members of the EPLS group performed significantly better than the non-EPLS group (7619% correct answers EPLS group vs. 6318% correct answers non-EPLS group, p