Tele-Support for Emergency Medical Technicians (POHCA)

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Other: Tele-support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06362850

1253/2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this manikin-based simulation study the impact of tele-support during a simulated pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest scenario on emergency medical technicians' guideline adherence, on gaze behavior as well as on performance of resuscitation management and cognitive load will be analyzed.

Full description

80 emergency medical technicians (EMT) will take part in this simulation study. The participants will be confronted with a scenario of an 8-year old boy, while wearing eye tracking glasses. In a parallel group design, the teams will be randomly assigned to a group performing advanced life support (ALS) without further support (group 1) or with additional tele-support (group 2). In case of support, an emergency physician assists the team performing the cardiopulmonary resuscitation management via a real-time remote connection.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-65 years
• Active work as an emergency medical technician

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Prior knowledge of study setting or simulation scenario

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

No-Support

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants randomized to Group 1 will perform the simulation scenario without tele-support.

Tele-Support

Other group

Description:

Participants randomized to Group 2 will perform the simulation scenario with tele-support.

Treatment:

Other: Tele-support