Natalie Kruit, Aidan Burrell, David Tian, Nicholas Barrett, Jan Bělohlávek, Stephen Bernard, Darren Braude, Hergen Buscher, Yih-Sharng Chen, Dirk W Donker, Simon Finney, Paul Forrest, Jo-Anne Fowles, Toru Hifumi, Carol Hodgson, Alice Hutin, Akihiko Inoue, Jae-Seung Jung, J M Kruse, Lionel Lamhaut, Richard Ming-Hui Lin, Dinis Reis Miranda, Thomas Müller, Vinodh Bhagyalakshmi Nanjayya, Christopher Nickson, Vin Pellegrino, Brian Plunkett, Carla Richardson, Sacha Alexander Richardson, Kiran Shekar, Zachary Shinar, Ben Singer, Dion Stub, Richard J Totaro, Alain Vuylsteke, Demetris Yannopoulos, Bishoy Zakhary, Mark Dennis
BACKGROUND: A multidisciplinary group of stakeholders were used to identify: (1) the core competencies of a training program required to perform in-hospital ECPR initiation (2) additional competencies required to perform pre-hospital ECPR initiation and; (3) the optimal training method and maintenance protocol for delivering an ECPR program. METHODS: A modified Delphi process was undertaken utilising two web based survey rounds and one virtual meeting. Experts rated the importance of different aspects of ECPR training, competency and governance on a 9-point Likert scale...
October 5, 2023: Resuscitation