Positive Communication and Clinical Performance in Anaesthetic Care.

Positive Communication Within Healthcare Team and Clinical Performance: a Prospective, Randomised and Controlled Simulation Trial.

The emotional and cognitive impact of positive communication between caregivers remains uninvestigated. The investigators hypothesize that positive communication during medical transmission can increase clinical performance for managing a subsequent stressful unexpected adverse event.

When caregivers deal with acute stressful adverse events, cognitive overload and negative emotions can impair cognitive abilities and decrease clinical performance. The beneficial effect of positive communication on patients' emotions has widely been studied. However, the emotional and cognitive impact of positive communication between caregivers remains uninvestigated. The primary purpose of this trial is to study the impact of positive communication between anaesthetic teams during medical transmissions on clinical performance for managing a subsequent stressful unexpected adverse event. Secondary outcomes are to study the impact of positive communication on physiological (heart rate variability) and psychological (psychometric scales) levels of stress.

Inclusion criteria

Anaesthetic teams composed with :

• 1 resident in anaesthesiology and critical care AND
• 1 anaesthetic nursing student in second year OR 1 anaesthetic nurse graduated less than 5 years ago

Non-inclusion criteria

• Refusal to be videotaped
• No consent to participate
• Anaesthetic nurses working in a paediatric operating room.