NCT02563912

Pre-calculated Doses of Medication for Pediatric Resuscitation, a Simulation Experimental Trial

Pre-calculated Doses of Medication for Pediatric Resuscitation, a Simulation Cross-over Randomized Experimental Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Justine's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Dosage errors are common in the stressful situation of a pediatric resuscitation. In addition to that, studies have reported that delays to provide medication is associated to worst survival rate for very sick children. To minimize delays and error, the investigators recently published a resuscitation handbook who provides drug dosages for each weight for children thus eliminating the need for dosage calculation. Once the weight of the patient is known, the physicians only have to open the book at the page corresponding to the weight and all the medications with their calculated dosage are provided. The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the number of dosage error during simulated pediatric resuscitation comparing residents using the handbook vs. utilisation of a chart providing non-calculated dosage. This will be an experimental crossover trial among 40 residents performing four simulated case-scenarios in a high-fidelity simulation lab.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Handbook	Resuscitation handbook who provides drug dosages for each weight for children. For example, at the page of 15 kg, it is written that the dosage of epinephrin is 1.5 cc of 1: 10 000.
OTHER	Medication chart	Medication chart who provides drug dosages for each weight for children. For example,it is written that the dosage of epinephrin is 0.01 mg/kg.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2016-03-01
• First posted: 2015-09-30
• Last updated: 2016-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada