Clinical trial NCT06645288: The Evaluation of Training an Emergency Reflex Action Drill in the Emergency Surgical Airway in Dutch Paramedics
Official title: The Use of an Emergency Reflex Action Drill in Emergency Surgical Airway
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Emergency Medical Services
Airway Management
Cricothyroidotomy
Prehospital
Prehospital Emergency Medical Services
Prehospital Setting
Self Confidence
Keywords: Emergency Reflex Action Drill
Emergency Surgical Airway
Emergency Medical Services
Prehospital
Cricothyrotomy
Coniotomy
Porcine model
3D model
Self-confidence
Lead sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-10-16
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study will include Dutch paramedics attending a course. Dutch paramedics are all registered nurses with a background in Intensive Care, Anaesthesiology or Emergency Care. EMS training comprises an additional nine months of training and assessments, to be concluded with a final exam. Also, ambulance drivers of ambulances providing advanced life support (excluding medium care ambulances) who participate in the course are eligible to participate due to their supporting role in airway management.

Brief summary: The goal of this observational study is to learn about the effects of training an Emergency Reflex Action Drill (ERAD) for Emergency Surgical Airway (ESA) in Dutch paramedics. The main question it aims to answer is:

- Does training an ERAD improves self-confidence in performing an ESA in Dutch paramedics Participants will fill out a questionnaire directly before and after the training. To investigate long-term effects, they will be asked to fill out a questionnaire after 2 till 3 months and after one year.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Registered Dutch paramedic
* Ambulance driver on Advanced Life Support Ambulance
* Participant in the two-day trauma course.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Medium care ambulance paramedic

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self-confidence
timeFrame: Baseline, pre-training up to immediately after the training
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Training model
timeFrame: Immediately after the training
measure: Self-confidence real life cases
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Harderwijk
country: Netherlands
facility: Academie van Ambulancezorg
state: Gelderland
Study officials:
affiliation: Erasmus Medical Center
name: Iscander M Maissan
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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