Performance and Stress During Full Scale Simulator Training

Technische Universität Dresden

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behaviour of Physicians in Simulated Emergencies; Stress During Simulator Scenario; Performance in Simulated Emergencies

Treatments: Other: Simulator based crew resource management course; Other: Medical simulator training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00704470

EK261122004

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physician with experience in intensive care medicine.

Exclusion criteria

• No experience in intensive care medicine
• previously taken part in simulator training

Trial design

32 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Classic one-day simulator training for intensivists.

Treatment:

Other: Medical simulator training

2

Experimental group

Description:

Crew resource management training

Treatment:

Other: Simulator based crew resource management course