Interdisciplinary Medical Simulation Centre, University Hospital Dresden
Dresden, 01307, Germany
Completed
NCT Number: NCT00704470
Performance and Stress During Full Scale Simulator Training
In Intensive Care Medicine, critical incidents are not rare and may result in fatal outcome. High fidelity patient simulators are commonly used in training curricula for healthcare professionals especially in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and intensive care medicine. Several different course concepts have previously been published. As we know from recently published data, up to 80% of all critical incidents in the field of medicine are caused by human error. The authors of the present study aimed to investigate the effects of two different course concepts (one addressing technical skills in intensive care medicine and on addressing non-technical skills) on stress and performance. Stress and performance are measured in a pre-intervention and a post-intervention testing scenario.
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Conditions
Sex eligibility
All sexes
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Primary location
Who can participate
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
- Physician with experience in intensive care medicine.
Exclusion criteria
- No experience in intensive care medicine
- previously taken part in simulator training
Treatment and study plan
Medical simulator training
OtherContains seminars on airway management, general anesthesia, peri-arrest arrhythmias, and advanced life support. Furthermore, participants train in simulator scenarios. In the debriefing instructors discuss management of the critical incidents using videotapes of the scenarios.
Simulator based crew resource management course
OtherContains seminars on human error and non-technical skills. Furthermore, participants train in simulator scenarios. In the debriefing instructors discuss usage of non-technical skills as well as behaviour of the participants using videotapes of the scenarios.
Primary outcomes
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Performance in simulated emergencies (medical performance and non-technical skills)
Secondary outcomes
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Stress in simulated emergencies (measured by salivary amylase and cortisol levels)
Sponsors and collaborators
Lead sponsor
Technische Universität Dresden
Other
Registry information
Official study title
Excellence in Performance and Stress Reduction During Two Different Full Scale Simulator Training Courses: A Pilot Study
Important dates
- Study start
- 2005
- Primary completion
- 2005
- Study completion
- 2005
- First posted
- Jun 25, 2008
- Registry last updated
- Jun 27, 2008
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