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Personal Protective Equipment Affect Team Performance During Medical Emergencies

NCT04742426 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2021-02-09

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Summary

Safety of healthcare professionals working in high-risk environments is of upmost importance. Personal protective equipment (PPE) may affect the performance of individuals and teams by altering their senses, manual skills and ability to communicate. Current guidelines offer flexibility in terms of which specific PPE components can safely be used. Yet, in some organisations, healthcare workers become used to using PPE well above the recommended standards (termed further in text as super-safe setup, SSS). Impact of this PPE policy on team performance and in turn to patient safety is unknown. The investigators hypothesise that SSS, as compared to WHO PPE standard, would negatively impact team performance and patient outcomes in a simulated crisis scenario.

Conditions

  • Safety Issues
  • Communication
  • Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Interventions

OTHER

WHO recommended PPE

Uses polycarbonate safety spectacles, fluid-resistant (Type IIR) surgical mask and disposable surgical gown. No head or foot cover.

OTHER

Super-safe setup

Uses surgical cap, FFP3 respirator covered by surgical mask, face shield, whole-body suit (Tyvec), 3 pairs of gloves typed to suit sleeves and disposable foot cover.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Roman Sýkora

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Frantisek Duska, PhD · Third Medical Faculty and FNKV University Hospital, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-01
Primary Completion
2021-08-31
Completion
2021-09-30

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