The Catalan Resuscitation Council, through the Medical and Healthcare Sciences Academy of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, recognises with this award the study led by Jordi Castillo, also involving Dr Encarna Rodríguez, Dr Carmen Gomar and Dr Albert Gallart.
At the award and grant ceremony, organised on 31 May by the Medical and Healthcare Sciences Academy of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, the lecturer in Nursing, Jordi Castillo, was awarded the prize for Best publication in a scientific journal of 2018 for his project “Checklist-based scores overestimate competence in CPR compared with recording strips of manikins in BLS courses”.
Castillo has used his teaching experience on the Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and as a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructor to lead the study published in the prestigious journal Resuscitation. The project is the result of Castillo’s doctoral thesis, carried out using an innovative teaching methodology for Basic Life Support (BLS). The aim of the study, carried out alongside Dr Encarna Rodríguez and Dr Albert Gallart, who also teach on the Bachelor’s degree, focuses on CPR practices designed to measure the skills of students of Medicine and Nursing at UIC Barcelona. The researchers have studied the relationship between the instructors’ assessments and the objective data obtained from the recording strips of the manikins at the university’s Comprehensive Centre for Advanced Simulation.
In Jordi Castillo’s own words, “this study has allowed us to fine-tune the assessment of eminently practical competences such as is the case of BLS. We have shown that the assessments carried out by the instructor tend to be double those yielded by the smart manikins. For this reason, a combination of both assessments seems to be the best path to follow”. He also said “the award won is great recognition for the nursing department at UIC Barcelona which for the past 7 years has worked solidly towards teaching initiatives on BLS and the use of AED. We are currently still working in this field with the intention of consolidating this line of research and making the Comprehensive Centre for Advanced Simulation a strategic point for the teaching of Life Support (basic, immediate and advanced), both for adult and paediatric patients”, as Castillo concludes.
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