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Performance and Stress During Full Scale Simulator Training

NCT00704470 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2008-06-27

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Performance in Simulated Emergencies
  • Stress During Simulator Scenario
  • Behaviour of Physicians in Simulated Emergencies

Interventions

OTHER

Medical simulator training

Contains seminars on airway management, general anesthesia, peri-arrest arrhythmias, and advanced life support. Furthermore, participants train in simulator scenarios. In the debriefing instructors discuss management of the critical incidents using videotapes of the scenarios.

OTHER

Simulator based crew resource management course

Contains seminars on human error and non-technical skills. Furthermore, participants train in simulator scenarios. In the debriefing instructors discuss usage of non-technical skills as well as behaviour of the participants using videotapes of the scenarios.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Technische Universität Dresden

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael P Mueller, MD · Director of Simulation Centre, Dept. of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Dresden

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-04-30
Primary Completion
2005-10-31
Completion
2005-10-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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