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

Crisis Resource Management Clinical Trial

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Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02075645
• Other study ID #: E-23264
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 25, 2014
• Last updated: November 30, 2015
• Start date: December 2010
• Est. completion date: November 2015

Study information

• Verified date: November 2015
• Source: University of Calgary
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Description:

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.

The investigator anticipates sustained, improved team performance after team training. If this proves to be true, the long-term goal is to disseminate this training widely across Canada, in order to benefit all paediatric resuscitation teams, and ultimately their patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: November 2015
• Est. primary completion date: November 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Fellows

• Attendings

• Non Code Blue certified staff

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Crisis Resource Management

Intervention

Other:
• 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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Alberta Children's Hospital	Calgary	Alberta

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Calgary	Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Teamwork performance as measured by the Clinical Teamwork Scale (CTS) by Guise et al		up to 3.5 years	No
Primary	Adherence to PALS guidelines, as measured by the Clinical Performance Tool (CPT) by Donoghue et al		up to 3.5 years	No
Secondary	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	No

External Links

•   Teams4Kids study website