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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1484506

Effect of blindfolding the lead resuscitator on frequency of closed-loop communication during veterinary cardiopulmonary resuscitation training: a randomized, controlled pilot study

Provisionally accepted
Olivia X Walesby Olivia X Walesby 1*Giacomo Stanzani Giacomo Stanzani 2Mayank Seth Mayank Seth 3Lindsay Kellett-Gregory Lindsay Kellett-Gregory 2Emily K Thomas Emily K Thomas 2
  • 1 The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, The University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
  • 2 Dick White Referrals, part of Linnaeus Veterinary Limited, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
  • 3 Stansted Veterinary Services, Unit 9 Stansted Courtyard, Parsonage Road, Bishop’s Stortford, UK, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom

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    To evaluate the effect of blindfolding the lead resuscitator during veterinary cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) simulation training sessions on frequency of completed closed-loop communication statements (CLC).Ten groups of staff volunteers were recruited for a prospective, randomized, blinded, observational pilot study over a 6-month period. Additionally, two associated online questionnaires were completed by participants.Private veterinary referral hospital in the United Kingdom.Forty volunteers were randomly allocated into ten groups of four. Each group was randomized as either control (CG) or blindfolded (BG) with the lead resuscitator always a veterinary surgeonveterinarian. The intervention involved the lead resuscitator wearing a blindfold during the third of four CPR simulation scenarios for the BG groups only.Video footage of Scenarios 2 (before) and 4 (after) the intervention was reviewed to quantify complete CLCs.Quantitative data were analyzed, and descriptive statistics calculated using GraphPadPrism a .Information from questionnaire responses was also analyzed.Statistical differences between the BGs and CGs were analyzed and there was no statistical difference in frequency of CLCs between the BGs and CGs during Scenario 2 (p=0.76). In Scenario 4, however, following the intervention, there was a significant difference between BGs and CGs (p=0.03), with a greater number of CLCs for the BGs compared with the CGs.Blindfolding the lead resuscitator in veterinary CPR training scenarios may be an effective method to increase the incidence of complete CLCs. Further studies would be required to investigate whether this finding is replicated and retained in the longer term.

    Keywords: closed-loop communication, CPR (veterinary), CPR training (veterinary), Veterinary CPR scenarios, Veterinary communication skills

    Received: 21 Aug 2024; Accepted: 10 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Walesby, Stanzani, Seth, Kellett-Gregory and Thomas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Olivia X Walesby, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, The University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

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