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Sports doctors' resuscitation skills under examination: do they take it seriously?
  1. M Lavis1,
  2. J Rose1,
  3. T Jenkinson2
  1. 1Accident and Emergency Department, Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Gwent NP7 7EG, Wales, UK
  2. 2Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Trust, Upper Borough Walls, Bath BA1 1RL, UK
  1. Correspondence to: Mr Lavis, Department of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK esstrj{at}bath.ac.uk

Abstract

As 64% of sports medicine doctors were unable to show proficiency at basic life support and assessment and management of a seriously injured patient with a potential spinal injury in the last two examinations for a University of Bath diploma in sports and exercise medicine, it was decided that a reminder is required of the importance of acquiring, at the very least, some basic resuscitation skills. An analysis and comment on the results from the first aid component of the examination is also presented.

  • basic life support
  • resuscitation
  • first aid
  • training

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.35.2.128

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