Can Adherence to PALS Guidelines be Improved by Team Training of Pediatric Resuscitation Members?

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Crisis Resource Management
• Interventions: Other: Team training course

• Registration Number: NCT02075645
• Lead Sponsor: University of Calgary

Brief Summary

A multi-centre prospective cohort study, which examines the effect of a team training educational intervention for pediatric resuscitation team members. The study uses simulation-based training as the primary teaching method to evaluate the effect of team training on team performance, as measured by adherence to PALS guidelines. By re-testing participants again after 6-12 months, the study will examine long-term retention of these skills. Hypothesis: adherence to PALS guidelines is improved following team training of pediatric resuscitation team members.

Detailed Description

A multi-centre prospective cohort study, which examines the effect of a team training educational intervention for pediatric resuscitation team members. The study uses simulation-based training as the primary teaching method to evaluate the effect of team training on team performance, as measured by adherence to PALS guidelines. By re-testing participants again after 6-12 months, the study will examine long-term retention of these skills.

The investigator anticipates sustained, improved team performance after team training. If this proves to be true, the long-term goal is to disseminate this training widely across Canada, in order to benefit all paediatric resuscitation teams, and ultimately their patients.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-12
• Study First Submitted: 2014-02-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-02-27
• Study First Posted: 2014-03-03
• Status Verified: 2015-11
• Primary Completion: 2015-11
• Study Completion: 2015-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-11-30
• Last Update Posted: 2015-12-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• Code Blue certified RN & RRT
• Pediatric Residents
• Teams must consists of Interprofessional (Resident MD, RN, RRT) resuscitation team members.
• Team composition will reflect actual resuscitation team composition at each site, which will vary slightly from site to site.

Exclusion Criteria

• Fellows
• Attendings
• Non Code Blue certified staff

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
team training	Team training course	Intervention: team training course. A 1-day simulation-based team-training course. There will be 4 simulated resuscitation events. Simulation #1 will be the "pre-course" team performance and simulation #4 will be the "post-course" performance.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Adherence to PALS guidelines, as measured by the Clinical Performance Tool (CPT) by Donoghue et al	up to 3.5 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Long-term effect of training on adherence to PALS guidelines (as measured by the CPT) & teamwork performance (as measured by the CTS) at 6-12 months post-training.	up to 3.5 years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Alberta Children's Hospital; 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta, Canada