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Effectiveness of Human Simulation Training for Medical Crisis Management Skills

NCT00425295 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2014-12-04

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Summary

The main purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of human simulation in the training of the leadership, cognitive, and psychomotor skills required to lead medical crisis management teams. All participants in the study are trainees in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Training Program (MCCTP.) All trainees will have received the standard critical care medicine-training curriculum including basic airway management, management of hypotension, unstable cardiac arrhythmias, difficult airway management and crisis team training. The participants will have also completed six months of baseline clinical training, which includes responding to medical emergencies at UPMC.

The specific aims of this study are:

1. To assess the effectiveness of Human Simulation Training (HST) as an educational tool for teaching medical crisis management.
2. To determine the effect of HST on objective measures of performance in the domains of communication, leadership, cognition and psychomotor skills.

Conditions

  • Education

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Human Simulation Training

Fellows will undergo Human Simulation Training (HST) composed of one 1 hour session of high-fidelity simulation of crisis scenarios requiring management of critical care skills, including triage, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), team management, and difficult airway management.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ramesh Venkataraman, MD · Department of Critical Care Mediine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  • Lillian L Emlet, MD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-10-31
Primary Completion
2007-12-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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