NCT02664779

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.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Nacional de Colombia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Arrhythmias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Arrhythmia diagnosis with the 10 steps method
OTHER	Arrhythmia diagnosis with the 6 steps method
OTHER	Arrhythmia diagnosis with the 4 steps method

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2016-01-27
• Last updated: 2021-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Colombia