Improving performance of emergency medical services personnel during resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients: the McMAID approach.

摘要

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The article presents the method we developed to improve emergency medical service personnel training. RECENT FINDINGS: Following the introduction of new prehospital protocol for emergency medical services that initially dramatically improved survival of patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, we found that without an adequate training and retraining program, survival rates decreased. A new training methodology called McMAID was developed to improve the quality of the resuscitation effort. SUMMARY: It is possible to train personnel to routinely execute an organized resuscitation if the approach to training is modified.