NCT02123810

Quality of Chest Compressions After a Night Shift

Weaker Chest Compression After Nightshift : The We CAN Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bistro Study Group · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators sought to evaluate the influence of fatigue after a night shift on the quality of Chest Compressions (CC) in CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), among physicians.

Detailed description

This is a non inferiority cluster randomized trial on three Emergency Departments (ED) and five Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from three urban academic hospital in Paris, France. The investigators evaluated the quality of CC with a low-fidelity manikin and its electronic feedback device. The investigators tested subjects on a 6-minutes CC-only CPR scenario, including 2 minutes of pause. Physicians were tested either on a control day then after a night shift, or after a night shift then on a control day.

Conditions

• Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CPR	Simulated cardiac arrest on a manikin Chest Compression CPR for 6 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2014-04-28
• Last updated: 2015-07-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France