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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| 1R01HD115574-01 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) | NIH |
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In the United States, the current standard of prehospital (i.e. outside of hospitals) emergency care for children with life-threatening illnesses in the community includes remote physician support for paramedics providing life-saving therapy while transporting the child to the hospital. Most prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) agencies use radio-based (audio only) communication between paramedics and physicians to augment this care. However, this communication strategy is inherently limited as the remote physician cannot visualize the patient for accurate assessment and to direct treatment.
The purpose of this pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate whether use of a 2-way audiovisual connection with a pediatric emergency medicine expert (intervention = "telemedical support") will improve the quality of care provided by paramedics to infant simulator mannequins with life threatening illness (respiratory failure). Paramedics receiving real-time telemedical support by a pediatric expert may provide better care due to decreased cognitive burden, critical action checking, protocol verification, and error correction. Because real pediatric life-threatening illnesses are rare, high stakes events and involve a vulnerable population (children), this RCT will test the effect of the intervention on paramedic performance in simulated cases of pediatric medical emergencies.
The two specific aims for this research are:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Teleconsultation video arm with PEM physicians | Experimental | Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers randomized into this arm will receive video teleconsultation with Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) physicians. |
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| Audio support arm with EM physicians | Active Comparator | EMS providers randomized into this arm will receive audio support by usual care Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Video teleconsultation | Other | Each team will participate in 4 video-recorded simulated transports in fully equipped ambulances. Each team will provide resuscitative care in 4 simulated high-risk pediatric transports. EMS personnel will provide care in the ambulance while PEM physicians will provide medical direction remotely using video to communicate with EMS personnel via tablet devices. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of Serious Safety Events | Serious safety events are defined as clinical care actions that reach the patient and have the potential to cause moderate-to-severe harm or death. An investigator developed predefined serious safety event checklist developed for each simulated transport scenario will be used to record serious safety events. Serious safety events will be scored as: present, absent, or not observable. | Post treatment usually 4 hours |
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| Harm score | The harm score is calculated from the serious safety event checklist for each scenario type. The harm score is the percentage of observable serious safety events that are present among all possible observable serious safety events possible in the checklist. The denominator includes the total number of items measuring observable serious safety events that could occur independently; items scored as non-observable are excluded. For serious safety events that depend on the ABSENCE of a "parent" error (e.g., CPR indicated, but not done"), the denominator for the Harm Score percentage is the total number of observable "child" events (e.g., "Use of compression-only CPR" or "Delayed compressions >1 minute in unresponsive patient with no pulse"). This is to avoid deflating the harm score for teams where parent SSEs occur, and so child SSEs cannot occur (i.e., are not possible). |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Tehnaz Boyle, MD PhD | Contact | 617-414-3682 | tehnaz.boyle@bmc.org | |
| Robert Seitter, MS | Contact | 781 571 2664 | Robert.seitter@bmc.org |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Tehnaz Boyle, MD PhD | Bosotn Medical Center, Pediatrics Department | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Recruiting | Los Angeles | California | 90027 | United States |
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Single blind, parallel arm, multicenter simulation RCT of prehospital teams from 9 Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and non-PECARN sites
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All participants will be blinded to the simulated transport scenarios.
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| Audio support | Other | Each team will participate in 4 video-recorded simulated transports in fully equipped ambulances. Each team will provide resuscitative care in 4 simulated high-risk pediatric transports. EMS personnel will provide care in the ambulance while EM physicians will provide medical direction remotely using audio to communicate with EMS personnel via tablet devices. |
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| Post treatment usually 4 hours |
| Error in medication choice | Errors in medication choice are measured by specific items within the serious safety event checklist. These will be any incorrect type of medication used by a team during simulation, including unanticipated medication choices which raters feel was not indicated or potentially harmful by consensus opinion. This will be reported as the proportion or percentage of items that measure medication choice that were scored as the error being present over all possible items related to medication choice. | Post treatment usually 4 hours |
| Error in weight-based medication dosing | These are measured by specific items within the serious safety event checklist. These will be any error in pediatric weight-based dose calculation, including error in volume of administered drug. This will be reported as the proportion or percentage of items scored as present over all possible items related to weight-based medication dosing. | Post treatment usually 4 hours |
| Equipment size error | These are measured by specific items within the serious safety event checklist. These will be any error in size of equipment used during each case. This will be reported as the proportion or percentage of items scored as present over all possible items related to equipment sizing. | Post treatment usually 4 hours |
| EMS protocol error | These are measured by specific items within the serious safety event checklist. These will be any error, omission or deviation in offline and online EMS treatment protocols that could result in patient harm. This will be reported as the proportion or percentage of items scored as present over all possible items related to selection of appropriate EMS protocols. | Post treatment usually 4 hours |
| Equipment Use Error | These are measured by specific items within the serious safety event checklist. These will be any error in equipment usage during each case. This will be reported as the proportion or percentage of items scored as present over all possible items related to equipment use. | Post treatment usually 4 hours |
| Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus | Recruiting | Aurora | Colorado | 80045 | United States |
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| Yale University | Active, not recruiting | New Haven | Connecticut | 06520 | United States |
| Children's National Medical Center | Not yet recruiting | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 20010 | United States |
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| BostonMedical Center | Recruiting | Boston | Massachusetts | 02118 | United States |
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| University at Buffalo | Recruiting | Buffalo | New York | 14203 | United States |
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| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | Not yet recruiting | Cincinnati | Ohio | 45229 | United States |
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| University of Utah | Not yet recruiting | Salt Lake City | Utah | 84112 | United States |
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| University of Washington | Not yet recruiting | Seattle | Washington | 98105 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D004630 | Emergencies |
| D006323 | Heart Arrest |
| D013226 | Status Epilepticus |
| ID | Term |
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| D020969 | Disease Attributes |
| D010335 | Pathologic Processes |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
| D012640 | Seizures |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
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