What should be included in the assessment of laypersons’ paediatric basic life support skills? Results from a Delphi consensus study

Table 3 Final assessment instrument items for Paediatric Basic Life Support

Paediatric Basic Life Support
Item	Description
Responsiveness	Recognise unresponsiveness
Call for help	Recognize need for help and alert surroundings both by loud verbal call out and using telephone
Open airway	Establish open airways including mouth inspection, appropriate head and jaw positioning
Check breathing	Assess breathing and recognize respiratory arrest or abnormal breathing
Rescue breaths	Provide high quality initial rescue breaths
Compressions	Provide high quality compressions. Adequate rate, compression depth and correct hand placement
Ventilations	Provide high quality ventilations in general during CPR with adequate chest rise
Time factor	Act effectively with minimised hands off time, no delays in treatment and fast call for help
Use of AED	Call for Automatic External defibrillator and appropriate use

The table summarizes the Paediatric Basic Life Support consensus items that fulfilled the consensus criteria for inclusion in the final instrument to assess laypersons’ skills after the third round. Description wordings have been aligned to ease the use. Content has not been changed

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