Abstract
We investigated the effectiveness of epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen®) skill training for Yogo teachers in the community medicine. The auto-injector skill training might be effective for establishing a caring system for anaphylaxis at schools in the context of community medicine.
Highlights
After the fatal accident by anaphylactic shock at a school in Japan in 2012, the Yogo teachers working group in Oki‐gun requested physicians to hold EpiPen® training sessions
We asked participants about their pre‐ and posttraining confidence in using EpiPen® expressed by a numeric rating scale (0‐100) and analyzed by the paired t test
Eight months after the second training, one of the participants did inject EpiPen® to a schoolchild who had an episode of anaphylactic shock after eating a school lunch and saved his life
Summary
After the fatal accident by anaphylactic shock at a school in Japan in 2012, the Yogo teachers working group in Oki‐gun requested physicians to hold EpiPen® training sessions. A training course was held in 2013 and was made known to all schools in Oki‐gun. Twenty‐one Yogo teachers from 21 schools (11 elementary schools, 6 junior high schools, and 4 high schools) took part in the auto‐injector skill training. Nobody had got EpiPen® training nor experience of EpiPen® injection.
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