Clinical trial NCT06552299: Evaluating Length and Depth Estimation Accuracy of Laypersons and Health-Care Providers
Official title: Evaluating Length and Depth Estimation Accuracy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Keywords: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Cardiac Arrest
Lead sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center
First posted: 2024-08-14
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The objective of the study is to measure accurateness of length and depth estimation of laypersons and health-care providers.

Detailed description: The study hypothesis is that both laypersons and health-care providers will have difficulty estimating length and depth. The study will enroll 100 laypersons and 100 health-care providers. The participants will be asked to draw a 5cm line without assistance an estimate 5cm depth to measure accurateness of length and depth estimation.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

* Laypersons: adult laypersons without cardiopulmonary resuscitation training within 2 years
* Health-care providers: adult health-care providers (doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians)

Exclusion criteria:

* Laypersons: laypersons with cardiopulmonary resuscitation training within 2 years.
* Health-care providers: health-care providers who are inactive (not currently working at medical facilities)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Depth estimation
timeFrame: Measurement immediately after registration on the day of arrival at the study site (protocol will take less than 5 minutes to complete)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Length estimation
timeFrame: Measurement immediately after registration on the day of arrival at the study site (protocol will take less than 5 minutes to complete)
measure: Depth estimation with assistance
timeFrame: Measurement immediately after registration on the day of arrival at the study site (protocol will take less than 5 minutes to complete)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seoul
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center
Study officials:
affiliation: SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center
name: STEPHEN GW LEE, MD, MA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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