Quality of Chest Compressions After a Night Shift (WeCAN)

Bistro Study Group

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Other: CPR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02123810

BG-CAN

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators sought to evaluate the influence of fatigue after a night shift on the quality of Chest Compressions (CC) in CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), among physicians.

Full description

This is a non inferiority cluster randomized trial on three Emergency Departments (ED) and five Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from three urban academic hospital in Paris, France. The investigators evaluated the quality of CC with a low-fidelity manikin and its electronic feedback device. The investigators tested subjects on a 6-minutes CC-only CPR scenario, including 2 minutes of pause. Physicians were tested either on a control day then after a night shift, or after a night shift then on a control day.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident / Physicians in emergency departement (ED) or taking night in ED
• Resident / Physicians in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or taking night in ED
• Nightshift > 18 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Stop chest compressions before 2 minutes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Other group

Description:

The investigators measure quality of chest compressions before nightshift. Control group

Treatment:

Other: CPR

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Other group

Description:

The investigators measure quality of chest compressions before nightshift. After night shift group

Treatment:

Other: CPR