WORKSHEET for Evidence-Based Review of Science for Emergency Cardiac Care Worksheet author(s)

Clinical question. EIT-013B-In BLS providers (lay or HCP) requiring AED training (P), are there any specific training interventions (I) compared with traditional lecture/practice sessions (C) that increase outcomes (eg. skill acquisition and retention, actual AED use, etc.) (O)? Is this question addressing an intervention/therapy, prognosis or diagnosis? Intervention State if this is a proposed new topic or revision of existing worksheet: Proposed new topic Conflict of interest specific to this question Do any of the authors listed above have conflict of interest disclosures relevant to this worksheet? Search strategy (including electronic databases searched). (" training " OR " teaching " OR " education " as text words) AND (" AED " OR " automatic external defibrillator " [MESH]). This search identified 284 articles. After duplicate articles were removed, 171 references were reviewed for relevance. From this 21papers were reviewed and 14 included in the worksheet. AHA Endnote library was searched with the terms " AED " and " automatic external defibrillator ". All relevant references had been identified with earlier search strategies. • State inclusion and exclusion criteria Inclusion criteria: Studies describing the effect of alternative training interventions on AED skill acquisition, retention or performance. Exclusion criteria: Purely descriptive studies of courses with no evaluation of training. • Number of articles/sources meeting criteria for further review: 16 articles studies met criteria for further review. Six of studies were LOE 1, 8 studies were LOE 2 and 3 were LOE 4. All were manikin studies. Poor 1 2 3 4 5 Level of evidence A = Return of spontaneous circulation C = Survival to hospital discharge E = Other endpoint B = Survival of event D = Intact neurological survival Italics = Animal studies E1 = skill acquisition E2 = skill retention *=laypersons; # = healthcare students; + = healthcare professionals Evidence Neutral to Clinical question Good Fair Mattei 2002 + (E1) Poor 1 2 3 4 5 Level of evidence A = Return of spontaneous circulation C = Survival to hospital discharge E = Other endpoint B = Survival of event D = Intact neurological survival Italics = Animal studies E1 = skill acquisition E2 = skill retention *=laypersons; # = healthcare students; + = healthcare professionals A = Return of spontaneous circulation C = Survival to hospital discharge E = Other endpoint B = Survival of event D = Intact neurological survival Italics = Animal studies E1 = skill …