Clinical trials: Basic Life Saving Skills
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Stillbirth and Neonatal Mortality
Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care: The EmONC Trial
The objective of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by increasing access to and improving the quality of obstetric and neonatal care for pregnant women in study clusters.
- Trial name
- EmONC (NCT01073488)
- Testing
- Community Mobilization, HBLSS and facility improvement
- Where
- 7 sites in Argentina, Guatemala and 4 more
- Volunteers
- 267,181 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health
Pregnancy
Home Based Life Saving Skills Training in a Rural Area in Tanzania
Background The maternal mortality ratio in Tanzania has been persistently high for ten years with no signs of the ratio going down.The Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) of 1999 and 2005 estimate the maternal mortality…
- Trial name
- HBLSS (NCT01192646)
- Testing
- HBLSS
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Basic Life Saving Skills, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Does Contextual Interference Improve Retention of Basic Life Support Skills? A Randomized Controlled Trial
The current method of teaching Basic Life Support (BLS) courses involves a practice schedule where learners rotate through each station once, without repetition.
- Conditions
- Basic Life Saving Skills, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Skill Retention
- Trial name
- NCT02381093
- Testing
- Modified BLS course, Standard BLS Course
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 74 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute