Effectiveness of Human Simulation Training for Medical Crisis Management Skills

NCT00425295 | Withdrawn Phase 1 DMC

• 1 other identifier: 0501050
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The main purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of human simulation in the training of the leadership, cognitive, and psychomotor skills required to lead medical crisis management teams. All participants in the study are trainees in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Training Program (MCCTP.) All trainees will have received the standard critical care medicine-training curriculum including basic airway management, management of hypotension, unstable cardiac arrhythmias, difficult airway management and crisis team training. The participants will have also completed six months of baseline clinical training, which includes responding to medical emergencies at UPMC. The specific aims of this study are:

1. 1.To assess the effectiveness of Human Simulation Training (HST) as an educational tool for teaching medical crisis management.
2. 2.To determine the effect of HST on objective measures of performance in the domains of communication, leadership, cognition and psychomotor skills.

Conditions

Education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• To assess the effectiveness of Human Simulation Training (HST) as an educational tool for teaching medical crisis management through objective measures of performance in the domains of communication, leadership, cognition and psychomotor skills.

  6 week intervals.

Study Arms (2)

1

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Human Simulation Training

2

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Human Simulation Training

Interventions

Human Simulation Training BEHAVIORAL

Fellows will undergo Human Simulation Training (HST) composed of one 1 hour session of high-fidelity simulation of crisis scenarios requiring management of critical care skills, including triage, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), team management, and difficult airway management.

1; 2

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• All consenting adult critical care medicine trainees at the MCCTP

You may not qualify if:

• Academic probation within training program

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pittsburgh: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15261, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Ramesh Venkataraman, MD

  Department of Critical Care Mediine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Lillian L Emlet, MD

  University of Pittsburgh

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 19, 2007
• First Posted: January 22, 2007
• Study Start: October 1, 2006
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2007
• Study Completion: December 1, 2007
• Last Updated: December 4, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-12

Locations

US (1)