NCT05649891

Checklists Resuscitation Emergency Department

Clinical Use of an Emergency Manual by Resuscitation Teams and Impact on Performance in the Emergency Department

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Region Skane · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will systematically evaluate how an emergency manual-a collection of checklists and fact sheets-affects the performance of resuscitation teams during the management of priority one patients in an emergency department.

Detailed description

Simulation-based studies indicate that crisis checklist use improves management of patients with critical conditions in the emergency department (ED). This six-month-long study prospectively evaluates a digital emergency manual-a collection of crisis checklists and fact sheets-during the management of priority 1 patients in the Skåne University Hospital at Lund's ED.

Conditions

• Shortness of Breath
• Chest Pain
• Abdominal Pain
• Altered Mental Status
• Syncope
• Seizures
• Vertigo
• Trauma
• Allergic Reaction
• Fever
• Cardiac Arrest
• Asthma Acute
• COPD Exacerbation Acute
• Pneumonia
• Pulmonary Edema - Acute
• Bradycardia
• Tachycardia
• Shock
• Burns
• Poisoning
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Emergency Manual	Collection of crisis checklists and fact sheets

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-01
• Primary completion: 2024-03-01
• Completion: 2024-03-01
• First posted: 2022-12-14
• Last updated: 2022-12-14