Can Adherence to PALS Guidelines be Improved by Team Training of Pediatric Resuscitation Members? (Teams4Kids)

University of Calgary

Status: Completed

Conditions: Crisis Resource Management

Treatments: Other: Team training course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02075645

E-23264

Details and patient eligibility

About

A multi-centre prospective cohort study, which examines the effect of a team training educational intervention for pediatric resuscitation team members. The study uses simulation-based training as the primary teaching method to evaluate the effect of team training on team performance, as measured by adherence to PALS guidelines. By re-testing participants again after 6-12 months, the study will examine long-term retention of these skills. Hypothesis: adherence to PALS guidelines is improved following team training of pediatric resuscitation team members.

Full description

A multi-centre prospective cohort study, which examines the effect of a team training educational intervention for pediatric resuscitation team members. The study uses simulation-based training as the primary teaching method to evaluate the effect of team training on team performance, as measured by adherence to PALS guidelines. By re-testing participants again after 6-12 months, the study will examine long-term retention of these skills.

The investigator anticipates sustained, improved team performance after team training. If this proves to be true, the long-term goal is to disseminate this training widely across Canada, in order to benefit all paediatric resuscitation teams, and ultimately their patients.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Code Blue certified RN & RRT
• Pediatric Residents
• Teams must consists of Interprofessional (Resident MD, RN, RRT) resuscitation team members.
• Team composition will reflect actual resuscitation team composition at each site, which will vary slightly from site to site.

Exclusion criteria

• Fellows
• Attendings
• Non Code Blue certified staff

Trial design

300 participants in 1 patient group

team training

Other group

Description:

Intervention: team training course. A 1-day simulation-based team-training course. There will be 4 simulated resuscitation events. Simulation #1 will be the "pre-course" team performance and simulation #4 will be the "post-course" performance.

Treatment:

Other: Team training course