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Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research

NCT02097498 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 387

Last updated 2016-09-28

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Summary

The overall objective of the present proposal is to assess whether medical simulation can enhance the safety and proficiency profile of paramedics performing prehospital endotracheal intubation, and whether feedback from an airway management expert observing the simulation enhances skill retention after 12 and 24 months. Since no validated proficiency assessment tool currently exists to measure the skill of paramedics in airway management, one will be developed and tested. Using this tool, 250 paramedics in central Ohio, will undergo simulation training similar to that required for certification. A baseline assessment of proficiency will be obtained. One group will be randomized to receive simulation training similar to that required for certification, while the other group will receive feedback from an airway management expert linked to the simulation test site via a 2-way audio-video feed. Both groups of paramedics will be reassessed at 12, and 24 months to determine whether skill level was maintained or whether skills deteriorated, and whether expert intervention had any impact on skill retention.

Conditions

  • Airway Management Assessment

Interventions

OTHER

Directed feedback

Group will receive feedback from an airway management expert while the paramedic review their baseline simulation scenario through recorded video

OTHER

Basic Videolaryngoscopy Videos

Group will watch a series of educational videos related to common airway management errors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ohio State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas E Terndrup, MD · Ohio State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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