Efficiency of an audiovisual training program on teaching shackled procedures

Abstract

The aim of the present research was to analyze the effect of a short audiovisual training on the shackled technique efficiency in three different stress situations. Technical shackle techniques procedures in 3 different situations of 26 male soldiers were analyzed after an audiovisual session. The situations were normal, alert and danger. Shackle maneuver was divided in approach to the subject, subject control, placing the first shackle, limb immobilization, placing the second shackle, frisk and transfer actions. The audiovisual training was composed by a video of shackled technique in normal, alert and danger situation that soldiers could watch a maximum of three time previous to the realization of the evaluation test. A decrease on shackled maneuver efficiency was measured with the stress. Limb immobilization presented the lowest values in alert and danger situations, a fact that has to be improved. Shackled maneuver time was twice in danger than in normal and alert situations, fact related to the stress of the situations. With these results we can conclude that a short audiovisual training was a useful technique to learn the shackled procedure in non experimented soldiers in normal situations, but no in alert and danger situations.