Time to Defibrillation Using Automated External Defibrillators by Pediatric Residents in Simulated Cardiac Arrests

Baylor College of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Residents

Treatments: Device: Manual defibrillator; Device: Automated external defibrillator

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00640354

H - 18876

Details and patient eligibility

About

Automated external defibrillators have improved survival for adult in hospital cardiac arrest. Automated external defibrillators are approved for children aged 1 year and older for out of hospital cardiac arrests. It is unknown whether automated external defibrillators have a role for in hospital pediatric cardiac arrests.

The purpose of study is to compare the management of cardiac rhythm disorders by pediatric residents using an automated external defibrillator versus a standard defibrillator in simulated pediatric cardiac arrests.

It is our hypothesis that residents using an automated external defibrillator will have a shorter time to defibrillation.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pediatric resident at Baylor College of Medicine

Exclusion criteria

• Not a pediatric resident at Baylor College of Medicine

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Pediatric residents randomized to having an automated external defibrillator

Treatment:

Device: Automated external defibrillator

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Pediatric residents randomized to having a manual defibrillator

Treatment:

Device: Manual defibrillator