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A mobile device app to reduce prehospital medication errors and time to drug preparation and delivery by emergency medical services during simulated pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: study protocol of a multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial

Published inTrials, vol. 20, no. 1, 634
Publication date2019
Abstract

Emergency drug preparation and administration in children is both complex and time-consuming and places this population at a higher risk than adults for medication errors. Moreover, survival and a favorable neurological outcome from cardiopulmonary resuscitation are inversely correlated to drug preparation time. We developed a mobile device application (the pediatric Accurate Medication IN Emergency Situations (PedAMINES) app) as a step-by-step guide for the preparation to delivery of drugs requiring intravenous injection. In a previous multicenter randomized trial, we reported the ability of this app to significantly reduce in-hospital continuous infusion medication error rates and drug preparation time compared to conventional preparation methods during simulation-based pediatric resuscitations. This trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of this app during pediatric out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Keywords
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Child
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Humans
  • Medication Errors/prevention & control
  • Mobile Applications
  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest/therapy
  • Prospective Studies
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Time Factors
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SIEBERT, Johan et al. A mobile device app to reduce prehospital medication errors and time to drug preparation and delivery by emergency medical services during simulated pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: study protocol of a multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial. In: Trials, 2019, vol. 20, n° 1, p. 634. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3726-4
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