Use of a Wearable Digital Cognitive Aid in Simulated Anesthesia and Intensive Care Crises. (SIMMAX)

CEJKA Jean-Christophe

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognitive Aids

Treatments: Device: Digital cognitive aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02678819

SIMMAX UCBL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a wearable digital cognitive aid has an effect in the management of simulated crises in anesthesia or intensive care.

Full description

" Errare humanum est ", to err is human. This Latin saying attributed to Seneca shows that since the dawn of time, human beings are aware that managing complex situations will always be an inexhaustible source of mistakes. This is particularly true in anesthesia and intensive care in which situations are often complex and stressful, thus leading to mistakes or inadequate management. Improvement might arise from the use of cognitive aids.

The investigators designed a smartphone application including 5 scenarios of anesthesia and intensive care crises (malignant hyperthermia, anaphylactic shock, acute toxicity of local anesthetics, severe and symptomatic hyperkaliemia, ventricular fibrillation), easy to use with a manual validation of every simple step. Investigators seek to compare the technical and non technical management of these crises with and without this wearable cognitive aid.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident Physicians training in Anesthesia/Intensive care (same specialization in France), year 2 to 5 (out of 5)

Exclusion criteria

• All other residents, including Resident Physicians training in Anesthesia/Intensive care, year 1 (out of 5)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Digital Aid

Experimental group

Description:

The digital cognitive aid is designed as a smartphone app. Intervention : cognitive aid during anesthesia and intensive care crises management.

Treatment:

Device: Digital cognitive aid

No digital aid

No Intervention group

Description:

Anesthesia and intensive care crises managed without any cognitive aid.