NCT03730025

Impact of a Mobile Application for Heart Rate Assessment in Simulated Neonatal Resuscitation

Impact of a Mobile Application for Heart Rate Assessment in Simulated Neonatal Resuscitation: a Randomized Controlled Crossover Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Padova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

NeoTapAdvancedSupport (NeoTapAS) is a free-of-charge mobile application that showed good accuracy in HR estimation. This study aims to evaluate the impact of NeoTapAS on timing of HR communication and of resuscitation interventions in a high fidelity simulation scenario.

Detailed description

Assessing the HR by auscultation can be limited due to imprecise auscultation and/or errors in mental computation, leading to inappropriate or delayed resuscitation. Previous studies evaluated a free-of-charge mobile application (NeoTapAdvancedSupport, NeoTapAS) to help HR assessment in a simulated scenario of neonatal resuscitation. NeoTapAS showed good accuracy in estimating HR and could be a useful tool in resource-constrained settings. Another potential advantage of using NeoTapAS may be the anticipation of HR communication during resuscitation, because it avoids mental computation and possible errors due to the stressful situation. In addition, prompt HR assessment may lead to anticipating resuscitation interventions. However, these hypotheses remain to be demonstrated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the promptness in HR communication using NeoTapAS compared with mental computation in a high-fidelity simulated newborn resuscitation scenario. In addition, the impact of NeoTapAS on timing of resuscitation procedures will be investigated.

Conditions

• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Heart Rate Assessment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Auscultation plus NeoTapAS	Pediatric resident responsible for HR assessment will estimate the HR by listening to the praecordium with a stethoscope. When using NeoTapAS, he/she will simultaneously tap the same pace on the screen of an iPad with the NeoTapAS app installed and will verbally communicate the HR displayed on the screen.
OTHER	Auscultation without NeoTapAS	Auscultation without NeoTapAS

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-02
• Primary completion: 2018-11-20
• Completion: 2018-11-20
• First posted: 2018-11-05
• Last updated: 2018-12-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy