2020 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 33-41
We hold Immediate Stroke Life Support (ISLS) courses once or twice a year in each prefecture in the northern part of Tohoku. At the same time, an ISLS workshop (WS) is also held. Due to differences in the experience of the participants, the content of the WS could not be fixed. Therefore, we produced e‒learning materials so that participants could engage in self‒learning before the WS in 2014, and we continue to use these materials. The e‒learning content conforms to ISLS Guidebook 2013. It consists of 4 parts; parts 1 to 3 are required, and part 4 is an optional part. The required part includes 7 questions, and the participant brings his or her answer sheet on the day of the WS. The contents of the e‒learning materials are as follows: Part 1) Introduction to ISLS; Part 2) Explanation of the elements of the 4 booths; and Parts 3 and 4) Demonstrations of the facilitation of evaluations of consciousness disorders. On the day of the ISLS‒WS, we teach a facilitation training for one hour. We have been holding the ISLS‒WS using the Akita system since 2014. The WS has been held 22 times, and has had 181 participants. The participants have included 52 doctors (29%), 100 nurses (55%), and 29 paramedics (16%). The correct answer rate for the e‒learning questions is 86%, and there has been no significant difference among the doctors, nurses, and paramedics. The questions with lower rates of correct answers involve “the rule of NIHSS” and the “relationship between simulated patients/facilitators.” The most frequent portion of the training completed was “required part only,” completed by 46% of participants. The most frequent number of learning days was “2‒3 days” at 49%. All respondents answered that “these contents were EASY to understand” in their evaluations. This e‒learning system is a useful tool for the ISLS‒WS, and there have been no problems in instituting it. We think that this system will be spread to other neuroresuscitation simulation trainings.
