TY - JOUR AU - Farzaneh, Roohie AU - Baharfar, Amirabbas AU - Rahimaghaee, Flora AU - Ahmadnezhad, Somayyeh PY - 2023/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Virtual Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training ‎During the COVID-19 Crisis?‎ JF - Updates in Emergency Medicine JA - Update in Emerg Med VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Research Study DO - UR - http://uiemjournal.com/index.php/main/article/view/33 SP - AB - <p><strong>Objective</strong>: This study was conducted to determine the effect of cardiopulmonary ‎resuscitation training using the combined training method and the traditional method on ‎knowledge and check the skills of medical interns. ‎</p><p>‎ <strong>Methods</strong>: This semi-experimental before and after the study was conducted on 50 interns ‎of the emergency medicine course at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (Ramsar ‎Campus). Thirty individuals received traditional training (4-hour theory class, live ‎demonstration, and practice on mannequins), and a group of 20 individuals received combined ‎training with virtual training (theoretical training in the form of a video). ‎</p><p><strong>Results</strong>: The findings showed that the average knowledge score after training was 16.2 in ‎the traditional group and 17 in the combined group, which did not show any statistically ‎significant difference (P=0.529). The average skill level of these individuals in the ‎traditional group was equal to 11 and in the combined group was equal to 11.5 and there was ‎no significant difference (P=0.895). But the findings indicate an increase in the knowledge ‎and skills of the individual in the two groups after the training (P&lt;0.001). ‎</p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong>: The findings of the present study showed that virtual education has not caused ‎a disturbance in the improvement of students' acquired knowledge and skills in traditional ‎education, and this can be used as a less expensive and more suitable method than the ‎traditional method in the conditions of lack of resources and time or COVID-19 related ‎quarantines.‎</p><p><strong>Funding:</strong></p><p>Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.</p><p><strong>Conflicts of interest: </strong></p><p>None.</p><p><strong>Authors' contributions:</strong> </p><p>SA and AB wrote the study protocol, collected datasets, SA, AB, FR and RF performed statistical analyses, and wrote the manuscript.</p><p><strong>Acknowledgments</strong> ‎</p><p>None.</p><p><strong>Ethical considerations</strong></p><p>The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Ramsar Campus- Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences with the code IR.MAZUMS.RIB.REC.1400.062.</p> ER -