Simulation of a clinical scenario of status epilepticus to investigate the adherence of the physician's response to treatment guidelines
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Status epilepticusNervous System Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN60369617
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Hospital Basel
- Brief Summary
2019 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31594860 (added 10/10/2019)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 58
Inclusion Criteria
Volunteering medical doctors working as resident physicians in different medical fields, including intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, and neurology
Exclusion Criteria
Physicians already having participated in the same simulated clinical scenario
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Time to airway protection<br> 2. Time to administration of supplementary oxygen<br> 3. Time to administration of first- and second-line antiseizure drugs<br> All times are measured during simulation (i.e. time from start of simulated scenario to action/treatment).<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Assessment of vital signs and neurologic status<br> 2. Ascertainment of medical history and laboratory results<br> 3. Performance of and time to assessment of treatment responsiveness<br> 4. Correct aftermath reporting of clinical characteristics, management aspects, diagnosis and etiology<br> 5. Subjective self-evaluation, including subjective stress level, quality of their performance, the performance of the nurse and certainty of diagnosis, assessed using a questionnaire<br> Secondary outcomes 1-4 are assessed by analyses of the audio-video recordings by two independent investigators. In cases of disagreement or discrepancies, re-analysis of the recordings are performed to reach consensus.<br>