Improving Situational Awareness Before Acute Care

Impact of Information Processing Via a Dashboard on the Situational Awareness of the Trauma Team Prior to the Management of a Critical Patient: an Experimental Simulation Study

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04577196

Acronym

IMPULSE

Enrollment

Registered

2020-10-06

Start date

2020-11-01

Completion date

2022-02-01

Last updated

2020-10-19

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Critical Illness, Trauma

Keywords

Simulation training, Non-technical skills, Data processing, Trauma team briefing, Situational awareness, Cognitive support

Brief summary

This study aims to assess the impact on the trauma team's situational awareness of using a dashboard to synthesize and disseminate available information on a critical patient incoming to the trauma center.

Detailed description

This trial will be carried out at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital's simulation center. Volunteer professionals will run scenarios simulating the information transmission chain pre-hospital team - trauma leader - trauma team just prior to the admission of a critical patient to the trauma center. In each scenario, the trauma leader will be alerted by phone that a patient is being managed by a pre-hospital medical team and is about to be transferred to the trauma center. The trauma leader will have to synthesize and disseminate the available information to the trauma team (composed of a junior physician, a resident and a nurse). Depending on the allocation group, the transmission chain will be supported or not by a specific trauma dashboard. The scenario will be discontinued at the end of this handover and before the patient's arrival.

Interventions

OTHERTrauma dashboard

A large dashboard available to all, providing a framework for synthesizing and displaying relevant information about the arriving critical patient, to be filled in by the trauma leader.

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Physicians, residents and nurses from the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital volunteering to participate.

Exclusion criteria

* Prior knowledge of the study scenarios * Study investigator

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Trauma team situational awareness	immediately after the end of the information transmission	Situational Awareness Global Assessment Technique questionnaire (score from 0 to 15/15, higher scores mean a better situational awareness)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026