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Can VAST Improve ACLS in Rwanda

NCT05278884 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2022-11-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Aim The purpose of this study is to determine if the addition of the VAST Course to technical resuscitation skills training enhances healthcare providers' resuscitation performance in a resource-limited setting.

Objectives

The aims of this research will be achieved by meeting the following objectives:

1. Quantitative evaluation of study participants' resuscitation performance during a simulation scenario before ACLS course, immediately following ACLS course, immediately following VAST course, and at 4 months post training.
2. Qualitative exploration of the barriers and supports identified by course participants to implementing resuscitation in the workplace after resuscitation skills training through focus groups.

New knowledge Lessons learned from this study will help inform the design and the implementation of resuscitation training programs in resource-limited settings. This has potential to improve resuscitation capacity in resource-limited settings leading to higher quality of care for patients.

Conditions

  • Global Health
  • Education
  • Resuscitation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Training

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is a resuscitation course to teach recognition and treatment of cardiopulmonary arrest in patients.

BEHAVIORAL

Vital Anesthesia Simulation Training

The Vital Anesthesia Simulation Training (VAST) Course focuses on core clinical practices and non-technical skills needed to respond to the most common urgent and emergent clinical challenges found in hospitals in resource-limited settings like Rwanda.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Rwanda

    collaborator OTHER

  • ANZCA Health Equity Project

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Teresa Skelton, MD, FRCPC · University of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-01
Primary Completion
2022-07-01
Completion
2022-10-01

Countries

  • Rwanda

Study Locations

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