Determination and Comparison of Short-term Effectiveness of Three Methods Used for Recognition of Arrhythmias in People With Different Degrees of Medical Training (Advanced Life Support Workshop Participants-ALS): Randomized Controlled Educational Experiment.

Arrhythmias Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02664779
• Other study ID #: ALS1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2016
• Est. completion date: June 2017

Study information

• Verified date: May 2021
• Source: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background: Arrhythmia recognition is a fundamental skill for the provider of advanced life support (ALS). Acquire it is difficult, leading to the birth of systematic methods in an attempt to simplify and optimize, however, it has not compared the effectiveness among the three methods with more evidence among professionals with varying degrees of medical training (ALS Workshop participants). Objective: To determine and compare the effectiveness of the three most widespread and with more evidence systematic methods (10, 6 and 4 steps) for the recognition of arrhythmias in a short-term and its perceived easiness among ALS workshop participants. Methods / design: Educational Cuasi experimental trial with pre and post intervention measurement, blind, with randomized allocation, in 84 ALS workshop participants. Three systematic methods to recognize arrhythmias will be taught and their effectiveness to diagnose in a short-term and its perceived easiness will be measured and compared.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 76
• Est. completion date: June 2017
• Est. primary completion date: January 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• • Health professionals
• Attend a course in Advanced Life Support in Cali (Colombia), during the study period.
• Voluntarily accept to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• No

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Arrhythmias
• Arrhythmias, Cardiac

Intervention

Other:
• Arrhythmia diagnosis with the 10 steps method

• Arrhythmia diagnosis with the 6 steps method

• Arrhythmia diagnosis with the 4 steps method

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Colombia	Cruz Roja Colombiana	Cali	Valle Del Cauca

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Colombia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	percentage of subjects who achieve scores greater than or equal to 30	For comparison of the percentage of subjects who achieve scores greater than or equal to 30 (approving minimum score) in the practical test of arrhythmia's diagnosis, the test will be the Chi-square (X2), which allows to compare proportions in more than two groups; or Fisher's exact test, submitted that one of the expected values is less than 5.	15 minutes after delivered the intervention
Secondary	change in the average scores in the groups	In order to compare the magnitude of the change in the average scores in the groups trained with each of the 3 methods, both in the the theoretical and practical test of diagnosis of arrhythmias; ANOVA or Mann-Whitney's U, according to the distribution of variables was performed. These comparisons are made to the post intervention measurements and Bonferroni correction for alpha according to the number of comparisons will perform. The analysis of the collected data will be using STATA 10.0 software.	15 minutes after delivered the intervention