Temporal Intervention Trial of a CPR Video in the ICU

Mass General Brigham

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Admission to ICU

Treatments: Behavioral: video decision aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01241955

2010-P-001820/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the decision making of family members of patients admitted to the ICU in regards to their CPR preferences for their loved ones with and without the use of a video decision aid.

Full description

Surrogate decision makers of patients admitted to an ICU and UNABLE to make decisions for themselves will be asked their choice for CPR preferences for their loved ones. This will occur during the first six months of the study.

After six months, surrogate decision makers of patients admitted to an ICU and unable to make decisions for themselves will view a video decision aid for CPR and then asked their choice for CPR preferences for their loved ones.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

patient admitted to ICU and unable to make decisions with a known surrogate decision maker

Exclusion criteria

Cannot speak English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

verbal description of CPR

No Intervention group

Description:

verbal description of CPR

Video decision aid

Experimental group

Description:

Video decision aid of CPR

Treatment:

Behavioral: video decision aid