NCT02932683

MedNav: Improving Neonatal Life Support (NLS)

Mednav: A Randomised Control Trial of Novice Users of Mednav a Neonatal Resuscitation Device at 0 and 7 Weeks Follow up.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study was designed to evaluate if MedNav impacts the ability of novice resuscitators to perform Neonatal Life Support (NLS) in the simulated environment, and if this ability is maintained after a 7 week period. Testing the nul hypothesis that there is no difference in technical skill completion when performing neonatal resuscitation on a mannequin with or without MedNav, immediately after training or after a period of 7 weeks since the training episode.

Detailed description

Novices resuscitators (Medical Students) were invited to attend a 2 hour teaching session on neonatal resuscitation. To ensure that the differences in outcome of Neonatal Life Support (NLS) learning are attributable to MedNav only, a simple randomisation process was carried out just prior to testing, where candidates pulled out a folded piece of paper assigning them to either 1. No MedNav on performing NLS (control arm) 2. Assistance of MedNav when performing NLS Blinding/masking was not possible for either the candidate or faculty as the testing process involved the use of a tablet device to display the MedNav system. On entering the room, candidates stated whether they were using MedNav or not. Each candidate was given an identical neonatal resuscitation scenario and technical skills in neonatal resuscitation were assessed using a 12-point mark sheet adapted from the Neonatal Life Support course provided by the UK Resuscitation Council. After testing, all candidates were asked to assess their confidence in performing NLS using a seven point Likert scale. Candidates were subsequently invited back for a follow-up session at 7 weeks. Testing of the same NLS scenario was undertaken with participants staying in their initial allocation groups. Again technical skills were assessed based on the UK resuscitation council mark sheet and candidates were asked to rate their confidence on NLS after. For further analysis, a small sample of 9 students from the "non-MedNav" group were asked to perform NLS with the use of MedNav immediately after their secondary testing at 7 weeks. The investigators aim here was to assess if this crossover group had a significant improvement in their task completion owing largely to the use of MedNav.

Conditions

• Infant Showing No Response to Resuscitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	MedNav	MedNav is a tablet based platform that uses auditory and visual cues to prompt people to perform the correct steps in neonatal resuscitation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-02-01
• Completion: 2016-04-01
• First posted: 2016-10-13
• Last updated: 2016-10-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom