Improving Situational Awareness Before Acute Care (IMPULSE)

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Trauma; Critical Illness

Treatments: Other: Trauma dashboard

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04577196

38RC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to assess the impact on the trauma team's situational awareness of using a dashboard to synthesize and disseminate available information on a critical patient incoming to the trauma center.

Full description

This trial will be carried out at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital's simulation center. Volunteer professionals will run scenarios simulating the information transmission chain "pre-hospital team - trauma leader - trauma team" just prior to the admission of a critical patient to the trauma center. In each scenario, the trauma leader will be alerted by phone that a patient is being managed by a pre-hospital medical team and is about to be transferred to the trauma center. The trauma leader will have to synthesize and disseminate the available information to the trauma team (composed of a junior physician, a resident and a nurse). Depending on the allocation group, the transmission chain will be supported or not by a specific trauma dashboard. The scenario will be discontinued at the end of this handover and before the patient's arrival.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physicians, residents and nurses from the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital volunteering to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• Prior knowledge of the study scenarios
• Study investigator

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Briefing supported by the trauma dashboard

Description:

During the entire chain of transmission (from the initial phone call to the end of the briefing to the trauma team) the trauma leader will be provided with a trauma dashboard to synthesize and disseminate the available information about the arriving patient.

Treatment:

Other: Trauma dashboard

Briefing without the trauma dashboard

Description:

The transmission chain will not be supported by any specific tool.