Positive Communication and Clinical Performance in Anaesthetic Care. (ComPerf)

University Grenoble Alps

Status: Completed

Conditions: Positive Communication; Anaesthesiology; Clinical Performance; High Fidelity Simulation

Treatments: Other: Positive communication during medical transmission

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03375073

CESAR001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The emotional and cognitive impact of positive communication between caregivers remains uninvestigated. The investigators hypothesize that positive communication during medical transmission can increase clinical performance for managing a subsequent stressful unexpected adverse event.

Full description

When caregivers deal with acute stressful adverse events, cognitive overload and negative emotions can impair cognitive abilities and decrease clinical performance. The beneficial effect of positive communication on patients' emotions has widely been studied. However, the emotional and cognitive impact of positive communication between caregivers remains uninvestigated. The primary purpose of this trial is to study the impact of positive communication between anaesthetic teams during medical transmissions on clinical performance for managing a subsequent stressful unexpected adverse event. Secondary outcomes are to study the impact of positive communication on physiological (heart rate variability) and psychological (psychometric scales) levels of stress.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

Anaesthetic teams composed with :

• 1 resident in anaesthesiology and critical care AND
• 1 anaesthetic nursing student in second year OR 1 anaesthetic nurse graduated less than 5 years ago

Non-inclusion criteria

• Refusal to be videotaped
• No consent to participate
• Anaesthetic nurses working in a paediatric operating room.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Positive communication

Experimental group

Description:

Positive communication during medical transmission

Treatment:

Other: Positive communication during medical transmission

Non-optimized communication

No Intervention group

Description:

Medical transmission with non-optimized communication.