NCT06362850

Tele-Support for Emergency Medical Technicians

Tele-Support for Emergency Medical Technicians Dealing with Pediatric Cardiac Arrest: a Randomized, Simulation-based Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this manikin-based simulation study the impact of tele-support during a simulated pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest scenario on emergency medical technicians' guideline adherence, on gaze behavior as well as on performance of resuscitation management and cognitive load will be analyzed.

Detailed description

80 emergency medical technicians (EMT) will take part in this simulation study. The participants will be confronted with a scenario of an 8-year old boy, while wearing eye tracking glasses. In a parallel group design, the teams will be randomly assigned to a group performing advanced life support (ALS) without further support (group 1) or with additional tele-support (group 2). In case of support, an emergency physician assists the team performing the cardiopulmonary resuscitation management via a real-time remote connection.

Conditions

• Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Tele-support	via real-time audio-video connection through an experienced physician

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-08
• Primary completion: 2024-09-11
• Completion: 2024-09-11
• First posted: 2024-04-12
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria