Smartphone Apps for Pediatric Resuscitation (SMARTER)

St. Justine's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Status Epilepticus; Anaphylaxis

Treatments: Device: Handbook; Device: Smartphone apps

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02958605

SMARTER1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medication errors are common in children. Characteristics of errors during critical situations in the Emergency Department are ill-defined and might be more frequent than previously thought. However, optimal strategies to eliminate the risk of prescribing errors remain unknown.

Many smartphone apps have been suggested over the last years with some of them designed to calculate medication dosage for children. The impact of these apps to decrease dosage error has never been evaluated in resuscitation setting.

The aim of the study is to evaluate whether the use of a smartphone application designed to calculate medication doses decreases prescribing errors among residents during pediatric simulated resuscitations.

This will be a crossover-randomized trial using high fidelity simulation among 40 residents rotating in the pediatric emergency department.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residents (PGY1 to PGY4)
• Completing a rotation in pediatric emergency

Exclusion criteria

• Residents who previously participated in this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Smartphone

Experimental group

Description:

Smartphone application

Treatment:

Device: Smartphone apps

Handbook

Experimental group

Description:

Resuscitation handbook who provides drug dosages for each weight for children. For example, at the page of 15 kg, it is written that the dosage of epinephrin is 1.5 cc of 1: 10 000.

Treatment:

Device: Handbook