Use of a Wearable Digital Cognitive Aid in Simulated Anesthesia and Intensive Care Crises.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cognitive Aids
• Interventions: Device: Digital cognitive aid

• Registration Number: NCT02678819
• Lead Sponsor: CEJKA Jean-Christophe

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a wearable digital cognitive aid has an effect in the management of simulated crises in anesthesia or intensive care.

Detailed Description

" Errare humanum est ", to err is human. This Latin saying attributed to Seneca shows that since the dawn of time, human beings are aware that managing complex situations will always be an inexhaustible source of mistakes. This is particularly true in anesthesia and intensive care in which situations are often complex and stressful, thus leading to mistakes or inadequate management. Improvement might arise from the use of cognitive aids.

The investigators designed a smartphone application including 5 scenarios of anesthesia and intensive care crises (malignant hyperthermia, anaphylactic shock, acute toxicity of local anesthetics, severe and symptomatic hyperkaliemia, ventricular fibrillation), easy to use with a manual validation of every simple step. Investigators seek to compare the technical and non technical management of these crises with and without this wearable cognitive aid.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-02-05
• Study First Posted: 2016-02-10
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-04
• Status Verified: 2016-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-07-25
• Last Update Posted: 2016-07-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 52

Inclusion Criteria

• Resident Physicians training in Anesthesia/Intensive care (same specialization in France), year 2 to 5 (out of 5)

Exclusion Criteria

• All other residents, including Resident Physicians training in Anesthesia/Intensive care, year 1 (out of 5)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Digital Aid	Digital cognitive aid	The digital cognitive aid is designed as a smartphone app. Intervention : cognitive aid during anesthesia and intensive care crises management.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Technical Performance as compared to a Reference Task List	Time 0-30 min	Number of tasks successfully performed, rated on remote video review

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Lyonnais d'Enseignement par la Simulation en Santé; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France