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Comprehensive Observations and Multidisciplinary Approaches in the Management of Unconscious Patients

NCT06265168 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2024-12-02

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Summary

This prospective observational high-fidelity simulation study aims to observe and better understand how physicians from different disciplines differentiate in the management of a comatose patient and how their diagnostic and treatment approaches adhere to current recommendations in a highly standardized simulated scenario. The results gained by this study will give more insight into the current quality of diagnostic procedures and treatment and help refine recommendations in this context. The investigators hypothesize that physicians do not strictly adhere (regarding diagnostic approach and treatment) to current guidelines/recommendations when confronted with a comatose patient.

Conditions

  • Coma

Interventions

OTHER

Simulation

Physicians will participate in a simulated scenario of an adult comatose patient. The intervention will be presented as a learning situation where the physician interacts with a high-fidelity mannequin. The mannequin simulating the patient will manifest a Glasgow Coma Score of 3 (improving over time to a GCS of 4) and a range of physiological and pathological symptoms. Physicians will have access to emergency equipment, including intubation equipment, a defibrillator, and medications. A trained nurse will be present to assist with the simulation. After 20 minutes the patient will regain consciousness in order to avoid a frustrating experience for the physicians. After simulation termination, a senior physician will join the resident and ask him to report the current scenario and will stop the simulation. The entire scenario will be video-recorded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Raoul Sutter, Prof. Dr. · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-03-01
Primary Completion
2024-11-21
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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