An interventional study of instruction in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitations, sponsored by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. Completed at 1 site in Switzerland. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 40 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-08-27.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Not applicable and Interventional
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.
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.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Technical Instructions
Other: instruction
Leadership-Instructions
Other: instruction
Debriefing
Hands-on time in the first 180 seconds after the onset of the cardiac arrest and the time elapsed until cardiopulmonary resuscitation is started.
Time frame: 180 sec after start of CPR
The effectiveness of the technical and leadership instructions
Time frame: 180 sec after starting CPR
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