Clinical trial NCT03204162: Optimizing Integration of CPR Feedback Technology With CPR Coaching for Cardiac Arrest
Official title: Optimizing Integration of CPR Feedback Technology With CPR Coaching for Cardiac Arrest
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Lead sponsor: KidSIM Simulation Program
Sponsor class: NETWORK
Collaborators: name: KidSIM-ASPIRE
First posted: 2017-06-29
Enrollment: 180
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: There is significant data showing that the quality of CPR performed is quite poor. Recent studies have shown that when real-time visual corrective feedback is available to CPR providers, quality (compression depth and rate) improves.

Pilot work at John's Hopkins Children's Hospital indicates that providing a CPR Coach whose role it is to provide real-time coaching during cardiac arrest, further improves the quality of CPR. This study will assess the impact of a CPR Coach for improving CPR quality and CPR perception in a team of healthcare providers during simulated CPA.

Detailed description: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is provided for thousands of children with cardiopulmonary arrests (CPA) each year in North America. The quality of CPR directly impacts hemodynamics, survival, and neurologic outcome following cardiac arrest. Well-trained healthcare providers consistently fail to perform CPR within established Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) resuscitation guidelines. The poor quality of healthcare provider CPR adversely affects survival outcomes and quality of life in cardiac arrest survivors.

CPR feedback devices that provide real-time visual corrective feedback during CPA have become valuable tools to help to improve the overall quality of CPR. The cardiac arrest literature shows that although CPR feedback devices help to improve the overall quality of CPR, there is still substantial room for improvement. A recent multicenter study involving ten pediatric institutions led by the principal investigator of this project evaluated the impact of CPR feedback on CPR quality during simulated CPA5. This study demonstrated that the use of CPR feedback improved depth compliance by 15.4% and rate compliance by 40.1%. However, overall compliance with guidelines in the CPR feedback group was still under 40% for depth and under 75% for rate.

Data collected by this research team suggests that a variety of factors may influence the effectiveness of real-time CPR feedback. CPR providers interviewed after a simulated cardiac arrest report that they often are distracted by other events while providing CPR, are unable to clearly see the device, or have difficulty interpreting the visual display on the CPR feedback device. Additionally, many providers' perception of CPR quality is inaccurate, with providers consistently overestimating the quality of CPR provided during simulated CPA, even when using CPR feedback. This suggests a need to improve provider perception of CPR and provider awareness of the CPR feedback device.

To improve the quality of CPR the investigators propose the implementation of a standardized resuscitation team structure with a CPR coach. To date, there have been no studies describing the optimal team structure required for integration of CPR feedback defibrillators during CPA. In this study,the investigators propose the concept of a CPR coach, whose primary responsibility is to provide real-time coaching during cardiac arrest to improve the quality of CPR. Preliminary pilot work done in the intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital suggests that use of a CPR coach improves the quality of CPR in comparison prior teams that functioned without a CPR coach. This study will assess the impact of a CPR Coach for improving CPR quality and CPR perception in a team of healthcare providers during simulated CPA.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Team Members: (i) Pediatric healthcare providers: such as nurses, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists and residents (pediatric, emergency medicine, anesthesia, family medicine); and (ii) Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification within the past two years;
* Team Leaders: (i) Residents (Year 3 or 4) in pediatrics, family medicine, anesthesia, or emergency medicine training programs or fellows in pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric critical care or pediatric anesthesia subspecialty training programs; (ii) Attending physicians from pediatric intensive care, pediatric emergency medicine, general pediatrics; and (iii) PALS certification in the past two years or are PALS

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not BLS certified

Primary outcomes:
measure: CPR Depth
timeFrame: During simulation scenario -Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: CPR Rate
timeFrame: During simulation scenario - Day 1
measure: Chest Compression Fraction
timeFrame: During simulation scenario - Day 1
measure: Perception of CPR Quality - Depth
timeFrame: Data collected immediately following the simulation session - Day 1
measure: Perception of CPR Quality - Rate
timeFrame: Data collected immediately following the simulation session - Day 1
measure: Perception of CPR Quality - Chest compression fraction
timeFrame: Data collected immediately following the simulation session -Day 1
measure: Adherence to Pediatric Advanced Life Support Guidelines
timeFrame: Day 1 (baseline performance)
measure: Airway Management Performance
timeFrame: Day 1 (Baseline performance)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: University of Alabama at Birmingham
state: Alabama
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Columbia University Hospital
state: New York
city: Providence
country: United States
facility: Hasbro Children's Hospital
state: Rhode Island
city: Calgary
country: Canada
facility: University of Calgary
state: Alberta
city: Edmonton
country: Canada
facility: University of Alberta
state: Alberta
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Calgary
name: Adam Cheng, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Cheng A, Brown LL, Duff JP, Davidson J, Overly F, Tofil NM, Peterson DT, White ML, Bhanji F, Bank I, Gottesman R, Adler M, Zhong J, Grant V, Grant DJ, Sudikoff SN, Marohn K, Charnovich A, Hunt EA, Kessler DO, Wong H, Robertson N, Lin Y, Doan Q, Duval-Arnould JM, Nadkarni VM; International Network for Simulation-Based Pediatric Innovation, Research, & Education (INSPIRE) CPR Investigators. Improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation with a CPR feedback device and refresher simulations (CPR CARES Study): a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Feb;169(2):137-44. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2616.
citation: Cheng A, Overly F, Kessler D, Nadkarni VM, Lin Y, Doan Q, Duff JP, Tofil NM, Bhanji F, Adler M, Charnovich A, Hunt EA, Brown LL; International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, Education (INSPIRE) CPR Investigators. Perception of CPR quality: Influence of CPR feedback, Just-in-Time CPR training and provider role. Resuscitation. 2015 Feb;87:44-50. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.11.015. Epub 2014 Nov 26.