Intentional Blindness During Perioperative Cardiac Arrest

NCT04122391 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: REB19-1549
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 60
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Cardiac arrest in the operating room is a rare but potentially catastrophic event with mortality rates greater than 50%. Recent CPR guidelines published by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) describe how high quality CPR improves survival rates and neurological outcomes from cardiac arrest. Despite CPR training, adherence rates with performance guidelines are alarmingly low in many pediatric hospitals . In addition to performance errors, medication errors have been reported to be as high as 50% during cardiopulmonary arrest. This can be attributed to many factors, including distractions and poor communication among team members. Previous studies suggested that loud noise in the operating room caused poor communication and impaired surgical performance. To understand more about simulation awareness during peri-operative cardiac arrest, the investigators are planning on conducting a prospective observational study, using a simulated perioperative cardiac arrest scenario in pediatric hospital.The investigators are aiming for a convenient sample of 20 simulation sessions. Each session will have a team of CPR providers (2 participants and 4 confederates). The 2 participants will include one anesthesiologist and one operating room nurse. The participants will be randomized into two group; group A will work in a noise environment of 85 dBA ( as per recommendation by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and group B will work in a noise environment of 100 dBA. Participants will be wearing eye tracking devices during the scenario (Tobii Pro GlassesTM) designed to capture areas of interest (AOI) / visual fixation. The investigators hypothesize that CC and medication errors are frequently left undetected and uncorrected, and that the less noise distractions during resuscitation improves but does not eliminate this pattern of inattentional blindness in resuscitation teams during simulated perioperative pediatric cardiac arrest. They also hypothesize that "look but not act" events are a frequent occurrence during simulated pediatric cardiac arrest, and that healthcare providers will have varying reasons that explain the occurrence of "look but not act" events.

Conditions

Cardiac Arrest

Keywords

simulation; cardiac arrest; perioperative cardiac arrest

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• proportion of each error type detected by any participant member of the resuscitation team (ie. team leader, the OR nurse).

  Detection is defined as one or more participant member of the resuscitation team either: (a) verbally stating and sharing nature of error with one or more team members (eg. "the CC rate seems slow"); and/or (b) verbally providing corrective feedback for the specific error (eg. "Please press faster to improve CC rate").

  simulation time = 10 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Time spent to detect the error

  30 seconds

• Team lead fixation errors

  1 minute

• Frequency of "look but not act"

  45 minutes

• Reasons for "look but not act

  45 minutes

Study Arms (2)

control

team will work in OR with volume of 85 dB

Other: sound level volume

intervention

team will work in OR with volume of 100 dB

Other: sound level volume

Interventions

sound level volume OTHER

Noise level during cardiac arrest

control; intervention

Eligibility Criteria

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

Study Population

Anesthesia (Staff, fellows, senior residents) OR nursing staff

You may qualify if:

• current PALS certification or PALS instructor
• attending physician or senior resident (year 3 or 4) or fellow in pediatric anesthesia.
• The other provider will be OR nurse with recent basic life support certification (past 1 year).

You may not qualify if:

• participant refusal

Sponsors & Collaborators

• KidSIM Simulation Program: lead

Related Publications (11)

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  PMID: 25226499 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 26472853 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 23801105 BACKGROUND

• Hinkelbein J, Andres J, Thies KC, DE Robertis E. Perioperative cardiac arrest in the operating room environment: a review of the literature. Minerva Anestesiol. 2017 Nov;83(11):1190-1198. doi: 10.23736/S0375-9393.17.11802-X. Epub 2017 Mar 28.

  PMID: 28358179 BACKGROUND

• Sutton RM, French B, Niles DE, Donoghue A, Topjian AA, Nishisaki A, Leffelman J, Wolfe H, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM, Meaney PA. 2010 American Heart Association recommended compression depths during pediatric in-hospital resuscitations are associated with survival. Resuscitation. 2014 Sep;85(9):1179-84. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.05.007. Epub 2014 May 16.

  PMID: 24842846 BACKGROUND

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• Idris AH, Guffey D, Pepe PE, Brown SP, Brooks SC, Callaway CW, Christenson J, Davis DP, Daya MR, Gray R, Kudenchuk PJ, Larsen J, Lin S, Menegazzi JJ, Sheehan K, Sopko G, Stiell I, Nichol G, Aufderheide TP; Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators. Chest compression rates and survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Crit Care Med. 2015 Apr;43(4):840-8. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000824.

  PMID: 25565457 BACKGROUND

• Sutton RM, Maltese MR, Niles D, French B, Nishisaki A, Arbogast KB, Donoghue A, Berg RA, Helfaer MA, Nadkarni V. Quantitative analysis of chest compression interruptions during in-hospital resuscitation of older children and adolescents. Resuscitation. 2009 Nov;80(11):1259-63. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.08.009. Epub 2009 Sep 4.

  PMID: 19733427 BACKGROUND

• Sutton RM, Niles D, French B, Maltese MR, Leffelman J, Eilevstjonn J, Wolfe H, Nishisaki A, Meaney PA, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM. First quantitative analysis of cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality during in-hospital cardiac arrests of young children. Resuscitation. 2014 Jan;85(1):70-4. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.08.014. Epub 2013 Aug 29.

  PMID: 23994802 BACKGROUND

• Sutton RM, Niles D, Nysaether J, Abella BS, Arbogast KB, Nishisaki A, Maltese MR, Donoghue A, Bishnoi R, Helfaer MA, Myklebust H, Nadkarni V. Quantitative analysis of CPR quality during in-hospital resuscitation of older children and adolescents. Pediatrics. 2009 Aug;124(2):494-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-1930. Epub 2009 Jul 5.

  PMID: 19581266 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Heart Arrest

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Adam Cheng

  University of Calgary

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Fatemah Qasem, MBBCh

CONTACT

(403)955-7211; fatemah.qasem@ucalgary.ca

Adam Cheng, MB FRCPC

CONTACT

(403)955-7211; Adam.cheng@ucalgary.ca

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CONTROL
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: NETWORK
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 8, 2019
• First Posted: October 10, 2019
• Study Start: December 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2021
• Study Completion: June 1, 2021
• Last Updated: March 25, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-03