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Leadership Instructions Improve Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a High Fidelity Simulation

NCT ID: NCT00884559

Last Updated: 2012-08-27

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

237 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-11-30

Study Completion Date

2009-04-30

Brief Summary

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Whether teaching leadership with a short debriefing has a positive influence on the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation remains largely unknown. The investigators will assess the sustained efficacy of a short leadership debriefing compared to a technical debriefing in a high fidelity simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Detailed Description

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Context:

Whether the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be positively influenced by teaching leadership with a short debriefing remains largely unknown

Objective:

To test the hypothesis that (1) leadership instruction are effective and (2) improved leadership results in better performance in a high fidelity simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Design:

Prospective, randomized-controlled superiority trial

Setting:

Simulator Center of the University Hospital Basel in Switzerland

Patients or Other Participants:

237 volunteer medical students in teams of 3

Intervention:

During a baseline visit, the medical students participate in a video-taped simulated witnessed cardiac arrest. Participants are randomized to receive thereafter a short video-assisted debriefing focusing either on correct positions of arms and shoulders (technical debriefing) or on leadership and communication to enhance team coordination (leadership debriefing). A follow-up simulation is conducted after 4 months. Leadership utterances, technical skills and the resuscitation performance of the teams are compared based on videotapes coded by two independent researchers.

Main Outcome Measures:

The primary outcomes for this study are the amount of hands-on time in the first 180 seconds after the onset of the cardiac arrest and the time elapsed until cardiopulmonary resuscitation was started. Secondary endpoints are the effectiveness of the technical and leadership instructions, respectively.

Conditions

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitations

Keywords

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Leadership Team building Resuscitation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Technical

Technical Instructions

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

instruction

Intervention Type OTHER

Debriefing

Leadership

Leadership-Instructions

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

instruction

Intervention Type OTHER

Debriefing

Interventions

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instruction

Debriefing

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* volunteer medical students

Exclusion Criteria

* no informed consent
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sabina Hunziker, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Stephan Marsch, Prof

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Intensive Care unit, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Locations

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University Hospital Basel

Basel, , Switzerland

Site Status

Countries

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Switzerland

Other Identifiers

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ekbb_SH_103

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id