Provider perception of cardiopulmonary quality in the simulated context

Methods During 2012, 314 medical staff of the Parma University Hospital were trained in basic life support defibrillation (BLSD). Before starting the course, the participants were randomly selected to create teams of two people working in the same department to take part in a simulation reproducing the first five minutes of a cardiac arrest in a medical or surgical department of our hospital before the intervention of the hospital emergency team. Before and after the simulation, each participant was asked to answer a selfefficacy questionnaire concerning the management of cardiac arrest using a 10-point scale. During the simulation, the time to activate the emergency response system, handson time, time to defibrillation, the number of compressions, and the percentage of correct compressions were recorded.