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Improving Cardiac Arrest Diagnostic Accuracy of Emergency Medical Dispatchers

NCT01872325 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1076

Last updated 2021-03-17

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Summary

The main goal of this project is to help 9-1-1 emergency medical dispatchers save the lives of more cardiac arrest victims. The investigators will develop teaching tools to help the dispatchers recognize abnormal breathing that may indicate a victim as having a cardiac arrest. After training sessions, the investigators will see if dispatchers can get better at recognizing abnormal breathing, how often they give CPR instructions, and if use of the teaching tool will increase bystander CPR and the number of victims leaving the hospital alive.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Education

An education program will be developed using behaviour change techniques specifically mapped to address modifiable factors identified in a previous study. These techniques will include: information about the significance of agonal breathing, modeling/demonstration of desired behavioural skills, rehearsal of desired skills, and monitoring/reinforcement and feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christian Vaillancourt, MD,MSc,FRCPC · The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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