Performance and Stress During Full Scale Simulator Training

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stress During Simulator Scenario; Performance in Simulated Emergencies; Behaviour of Physicians in Simulated Emergencies
• Interventions: Other: Simulator based crew resource management course; Other: Medical simulator training

• Registration Number: NCT00704470
• Lead Sponsor: Technische Universität Dresden

Brief Summary

In Intensive Care Medicine, critical incidents are not rare and may result in fatal outcome. High fidelity patient simulators are commonly used in training curricula for healthcare professionals especially in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and intensive care medicine. Several different course concepts have previously been published. As we know from recently published data, up to 80% of all critical incidents in the field of medicine are caused by human error. The authors of the present study aimed to investigate the effects of two different course concepts (one addressing technical skills in intensive care medicine and on addressing non-technical skills) on stress and performance. Stress and performance are measured in a pre-intervention and a post-intervention testing scenario.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-04
• Primary Completion: 2005-10
• Study Completion: 2005-10
• Status Verified: 2008-06
• Study First Submitted: 2008-06-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-06-24
• Study First Posted: 2008-06-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 2008-06-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 32

Inclusion Criteria

• Physician with experience in intensive care medicine.

Exclusion Criteria

• No experience in intensive care medicine
• previously taken part in simulator training

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
2	Simulator based crew resource management course	Crew resource management training
1	Medical simulator training	Classic one-day simulator training for intensivists.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Performance in simulated emergencies (medical performance and non-technical skills)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stress in simulated emergencies (measured by salivary amylase and cortisol levels)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Interdisciplinary Medical Simulation Centre, University Hospital Dresden; 🇩🇪 Dresden, Germany