NCT02075645

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Calgary · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Crisis Resource Management

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2015-11-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2014-03-03
• Last updated: 2015-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada