TY - GEN
T1 - Improving instructions to stop the bleed
AU - Forsyth, Katherine L.
AU - Lowndes, Bethany R.
AU - Prytz, Erik
AU - Jonson, Carl Oscar
AU - Sztajnkrycer, Matthew D.
AU - Heller, Stephanie F.
AU - Hallbeck, M. Susan
AU - Blocker, Renaldo C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2017 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The Stop The Bleed initiative was developed by the Department of Homeland Security to educate lay providers in bleeding reduction strategies. The current study evaluated: (1)three tourniquet instructions using a simulated tourniquet task and (2)participant confidence levels in tourniquet use and lay provider training. Thirty participants with limited clinical experience applied a tourniquet to a simulated limb using one of three instruction sets. Twelve of these participants (40%) participated in a tourniquet training session and focus group to discuss each instruction set. Participants preferred the most simple and pictoral instruction set, and identified opportunities for improvement in each set. Participant confidence in tourniquet use increased significantly following the task and the focus group. After the focus group, participant confidence in instructing lay providers on proper tourniquet use significantly increased. Adding key steps, contextual pictures, and indicators of success to instructions could support lay providers stop the bleed in life-threatening situations.
AB - The Stop The Bleed initiative was developed by the Department of Homeland Security to educate lay providers in bleeding reduction strategies. The current study evaluated: (1)three tourniquet instructions using a simulated tourniquet task and (2)participant confidence levels in tourniquet use and lay provider training. Thirty participants with limited clinical experience applied a tourniquet to a simulated limb using one of three instruction sets. Twelve of these participants (40%) participated in a tourniquet training session and focus group to discuss each instruction set. Participants preferred the most simple and pictoral instruction set, and identified opportunities for improvement in each set. Participant confidence in tourniquet use increased significantly following the task and the focus group. After the focus group, participant confidence in instructing lay providers on proper tourniquet use significantly increased. Adding key steps, contextual pictures, and indicators of success to instructions could support lay providers stop the bleed in life-threatening situations.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931213601631
DO - 10.1177/1541931213601631
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042501482
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 588
EP - 592
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
T2 - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
Y2 - 9 October 2017 through 13 October 2017
ER -