Evaluation of Two Strategies for Debriefing in the Development of Skills for Neonatal Resuscitation

Summary

Introduction: Training of health professionals in neonatal resuscitation reduces risks and adverse events during this intervention. Simulation-based education with constructive immediate feedback (debriefing) is an effective teaching method for personnel in charge of neonatal resuscitation.

Objective: To evaluate two debriefing strategies for the development of neonatal resuscitation skills in professionals specialized in critical newborn care.

Materials and Methods: A simple blind randomized clinical trial was conducted. Twenty-four professionals (pediatricians, nurses, and respiratory therapists) were randomly assigned for two interventions; one group received oral debriefing and the other oral debriefing assisted by video. Three standardized clinical scenarios that were recorded on video were executed. A checklist was applied for the evaluation, administered by a reviewer blinded to the assignment of the type of debriefing.

Null hypothesis: The improved in the skills of neonatal resuscitation is the same for both strategies of debriefing.

Alternative hypothesis: The improved in the skills of neonatal resuscitation is different for both strategies of debriefing

Conditions

• Asphyxia Neonatorum
• Birth Injuries
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Interventions

OTHER

Structured debriefing assisted by video

In the structured debriefing assisted by video, the process was based on the immediate review of the video, stopping and rewinding the recording as required. The debriefing session was conducted in the debriefing room of the simulation laboratory with an assigned time of 15 minutes. Each session was developed in three phases. The first phase, descriptive, in which each participant was encouraged to recount what they had lived and experienced, clarifying how the events unfolded, verifying the appropriate decisions and the errors committed in the scenario and the ways they could have solved them and corrected them. The second phase, analytical, the participant reflected on what occurred in the scenario, commenting on how their feelings were involved in the development of the case. The third phase, application or transference, in which the group was encouraged to draw conclusions from what had occurred, realizing an application of this experience in a real-life.

OTHER

Structured oral debriefing

In the structured oral debriefing, the process was based by the mental search of their memories of what occurred. The debriefing session was conducted in the debriefing room of the simulation laboratory with an assigned time of 15 minutes. Each session was developed in three phases. The first phase, descriptive, in which each participant was encouraged to recount what they had lived and experienced, clarifying how the events unfolded, verifying the appropriate decisions and the errors committed in the scenario and the ways they could have solved them and corrected them. The second phase, analytical, the participant reflected on what occurred in the scenario, commenting on how their feelings were involved in the development of the case. The third phase, application or transference, in which the group was encouraged to draw conclusions from what had occurred, realizing an application of this experience in a real-life.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad de la Sabana

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-02-01

Primary Completion

2016-06-15

Completion

2017-06-15