Excellence in Performance and Stress Reduction During Two Different Full Scale Simulator Training Courses: A Pilot Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Performance in Simulated Emergencies
- Sponsor
- Technische Universität Dresden
- Enrollment
- 32
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Performance in simulated emergencies (medical performance and non-technical skills)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 17 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Physician with experience in intensive care medicine.
Exclusion Criteria
- •No experience in intensive care medicine
- •previously taken part in simulator training
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Performance in simulated emergencies (medical performance and non-technical skills)
Secondary Outcomes
- Stress in simulated emergencies (measured by salivary amylase and cortisol levels)