Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Physicians in Training and Critical Care Nurses Performance in Medical Code Events: Effect of Simulation-Based Training
Brief Summary:
METHODS:
Subjects:
All internal medicine (IM), emergency medicine (EM), anesthesia (A), surgery (S) residents and all hospital ICU nurses (approximately 400 subjects) will be undergoing evaluation and training in CPR techniques according to their department training policy.
Study Assessment Tool:
An objective assessment tool has been developed and tested in medical code scenarios during training sessions recently done in the simulation lab. The tool has five domains: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Communications/Leadership, and Defibrillation. Each domain consists of 3-8 tasks and skills (attachment A).
Design: