Improving the Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) During Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

Aim 1 - To evaluate the effectiveness of a CPR visual feedback device to improve compliance with current Heart and Stork Foundation of Canada (HSFC) CPR and resuscitation guidelines during simulated pediatric cardiac arrest for a team of healthcare providers.

Aim 2 - To evaluate the effectiveness of a "Just in Time" CPR Training Video to improve compliance with current HSFC CPR and resuscitation guidelines during simulated pediatric cardiac arrest for a team of healthcare providers.

Aim 3 - To determine if there is a synergistic effect when adding Just in Time CPR Training Video with the use of the CPR visual feedback device to improve compliance with current HSFC CPR and resuscitation guidelines during a simulated pediatric cardiac arrest scenario.

Aim 4 - To determine the degree to which provider's perception of CPR quality matches actual quality of CPR

Aim 5 - To describe the task load of healthcare providers in sepsis and cardiac arrest scenarios

Participants will be recruited from ten pediatric tertiary care centers in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom using the methodology already piloted and studied in our existing EXPRESS investigators collaborative. Participants recruited to participate in the study will be asked to perform as members of a pediatric resuscitation team. Each team of healthcare providers will be randomized into one of four study arms. In study arm 1, resuscitation teams will participate in a simulated pediatric cardiac arrest scenario, and provide standard CPR without prior JIT training and blinded to any feedback from the CPR card during the scenario. Instead, the CPR card will be placed on the chest during compressions to collect real-time data, but the feedback lights on the card will be covered by black tape and thus, not visible to the members of the resuscitation team. In study arm 2, resuscitation teams will participate in the same scenario without prior JIT training, but provide chest compressions with the CPR card placed on the chest (and providing visual feedback) during compressions. In study arm 3, participants will be given a CPR card and asked to view the JIT training video. Following practice, they will be asked to participate in the simulated cardiac arrest scenario, and provide standard CPR without feedback from the CPR card. As in study arm 1, the CPR card will still be placed on the chest, but the feedback lights will be covered and not visible to the resuscitation team members. Finally, participants in study arm 4 will received JIT training prior to the simulated scenario, and have the CPR card in place during chest compressions to provide immediate visual feedback.

Inclusion criteria

• Team Member: Pediatric healthcare providers, such as nurses, nurse practitioners, and residents (pediatric emergency medicine, anesthesia, family medicine)
• Team Member: No prior experience with CPR feedback devices
• Team Member: Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support or Advanced Cardiac Life Support certifications within the past two years
• Team Leader: Residents (Year 2,3, or 4) in pediatrics, family medicine, anesthesia, emergency medicine training programs
• Team Leader: fellows in pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric critical care or pediatric anesthesia sub specialty training programs, attending in-patient pediatricians.
• Team Leader: No prior experience with CPR feedback devices
• Team Leader: Pediatric Advanced Life Support in the past 2 years or are Pediatric Advanced Life Support instructors

Exclusion criteria

• Team Member and Leader: Previous experience using, teaching with, or learning with a CPR feedback device
• Team Member and Leader: No Basic Life Support, Pediatric Advance Life Support or Adult Cardiac Life Support Certification