Table 2.

Observed facilitator interventions immediately before the debriefings moved into the Explanation phase, number of occurrences and descriptions of the interventions

Facilitator intervention	Occurrence	Description
Asks about opinions	5	The facilitator asks for participants’ opinions about events or behaviours in the simulations or to suggestions made by individual participants (‘Do you think it [the ventilation] was [done] too fast?’).
Asks for a rationale	3	The facilitator asks for reason underlying the problem or explanations as to why a problem occurred (‘Why do you have difficulties discovering that there is another person in the room, Donald?’).
Clarifies the problem	2	The facilitator clarifies a problem by summarising it or reminding the participants about it (‘you switch places … but at that point you haven’t secured the ventilation… if you change the position of the head then you may not have a free airway…’).