Teaching airway management with laryngeal mask: randomized controlled trial - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objective:

to teach airway management with laryngeal mask to nursing students through dialogic lectures along with laboratory activities or exclusively through simulation class.

Method:

randomized controlled trial. Population: eighth semester bachelor’s degree students. Sample: 17 students randomized in the intervention group (IG: simulation class) or control group (CG: dialogic lecture along with laboratory activities). Elaborated and validated instruments: written test, simulation scenario, objective structured clinical examination (checklist). Data collected from workshop. Structured clinical examination in simulation scenario filmed and evaluated by 3 experts, and written tests were applied.

Results:

24.4±4.2 years old. Right answers percentage: CG: pre-test 66±10%; post-test 84±8%. IG: pre-test 65±5%; post-test 86±11%. Scenario: CG 78±5.2%; IG 84±8.9%.

Conclusion:

strategies allowed the development of knowledge, skills and decision-making, which are essential to achieve the scenario objectives. Knowledge was incorporated in airway management with laryngeal mask, shown by the increase in the scenario and written tests scores.