Can Adherence to PALS Guidelines be Improved by Team Training of Pediatric Resuscitation Members?

NCT02075645 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: E-23264
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 300
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A multi-centre prospective cohort study, which examines the effect of a team training educational intervention for pediatric resuscitation team members. The study uses simulation-based training as the primary teaching method to evaluate the effect of team training on team performance, as measured by adherence to PALS guidelines. By re-testing participants again after 6-12 months, the study will examine long-term retention of these skills. Hypothesis: adherence to PALS guidelines is improved following team training of pediatric resuscitation team members.

Conditions

Crisis Resource Management

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Adherence to PALS guidelines, as measured by the Clinical Performance Tool (CPT) by Donoghue et al

  up to 3.5 years

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Long-term effect of training on adherence to PALS guidelines (as measured by the CPT) & teamwork performance (as measured by the CTS) at 6-12 months post-training.

  up to 3.5 years

Other Outcomes (1)

• Teamwork performance as measured by the Clinical Teamwork Scale (CTS) by Guise et al

  up to 3.5 years

Study Arms (1)

team training

OTHER

Intervention: team training course. A 1-day simulation-based team-training course. There will be 4 simulated resuscitation events. Simulation #1 will be the "pre-course" team performance and simulation #4 will be the "post-course" performance.

Other: Team training course

Interventions

Team training course OTHER

A 1-day simulation-based team-training course. There will be 4 simulated resuscitation events. Simulation #1 will be the "pre-course" team performance and simulation #4 will be the "post-course" performance.

team training

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Code Blue certified RN \& RRT
• Pediatric Residents
• Teams must consists of Interprofessional (Resident MD, RN, RRT) resuscitation team members.
• Team composition will reflect actual resuscitation team composition at each site, which will vary slightly from site to site.

You may not qualify if:

• Fellows
• Attendings
• Non Code Blue certified staff

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Calgary: lead
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada: collaborator
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Alberta Children's Hospital

Calgary, Alberta, T3B6A8, Canada

Location

Study Officials

• Elaine Gilfoyle, MD,MMEd

  University of Calgary

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Pediatric Intensivist

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 25, 2014
• First Posted: March 3, 2014
• Study Start: December 1, 2010
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2015
• Study Completion: November 1, 2015
• Last Updated: December 2, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-11

Locations

CA (1)