Clinical trial NCT06362850: Tele-Support for Emergency Medical Technicians
Official title: Tele-Support for Emergency Medical Technicians Dealing with Pediatric Cardiac Arrest: a Randomized, Simulation-based Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cardiac Arrest
Keywords: simulation
pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
advanced life support
eye tracking
cognitive load
emergency medicine
patient safety
telemedicine
anaesthesiology
Lead sponsor: Medical University of Vienna
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety
First posted: 2024-04-12
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: In a manikin-based simulation study, the participants will be randomized to either performing the scenario with tele-support or without tele-support (80 participants 40 groups, 20 groups with tele-support, 20 groups without tele-support).
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18-65 years
* Active work as an emergency medical technician

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnancy
* Prior knowledge of study setting or simulation scenario

Primary outcomes:
measure: guideline adherence
timeFrame: Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: gaze behavior
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: teamwork performance
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: cognitive load
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Technical feasibility
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Usability
timeFrame: Day 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vienna
country: Austria
facility: Department of Anesthesia, General Intensive Care and Pain Management,Medical University of Vienna
Study officials:
affiliation: Medical University of Vienna
name: Christina Hafner, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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