PEA: the Ability of Nurses to Recognize It (PEA: ANTRI)

Completed

• Conditions: Pulseless Electrical Activity
• Interventions: Other: Pulseless electrical activity recognition

• Registration Number: NCT06305013
• Lead Sponsor: Brno University Hospital

Brief Summary

The Ability to recognize cardiac arrest is crucial in emergency situations and all health care professionals should be able to do so. The identification of pulseless electrical activity can be difficult even if the theoretical knowledge of this state is well known. This research will be performed at the Simulation centre of Medical Faculty, Masaryk university and it will be focused on nurses who will come to the simulation course. All the participants will get prelearning theoretical materials that will contain chapter about pulseless electrical activity and its recognition. In the beginning of the course they will be asked to fill up the questionnaire with four different pictures of patient´s monitor in cardiac arrest. It will be evaluated whether the pulseless electrical activity will be recognized.

Detailed Description

The Ability to recognize cardiac arrest is crucial in emergency situations and all health care professionals should be able to do so. The identification of pulseless electrical activity can be difficult even if the theoretical knowledge of this state is well known. This research will be performed at the Simulation centre of Medical Faculty, Masaryk university and it will be focused on nurses who will come to the simulation course. All the participants will get prelearning theoretical materials that will contain chapter about pulseless electrical activity and its recognition. In the beginning of the course they will be asked to fill up the questionnaire with four different pictures of patient´s monitor in cardiac arrest. It will be evaluated whether the pulseless electrical activity will be recognized.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-03-01
• Study First Submitted: 2024-03-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-03-05
• Study First Posted: 2024-03-12
• Primary Completion: 2025-01-07
• Study Completion: 2025-01-07
• Status Verified: 2025-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-18
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 89

Inclusion Criteria

• Nurse or paramedic
• Participant of simulation course organised by Department of Simulation medicine, Faculty of medicine, Masaryk university

Exclusion Criteria

• No experience wiht monitoring patients by vital signs monitor

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Participant of simulation course organised by Department of Simulation medicine	Pulseless electrical activity recognition	Participant of simulation course organised by Department of Simulation medicine

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pulseless electrical activity recognition,	12 months	The ability of nurses to recognize the pulseless electrical activity in the questionnaire (electronic survey)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty hospital Brno; 🇨🇿 Brno, jihomoravský kraj, Czechia