Smartphone Apps for Pediatric Resuscitation
Smartphone Apps for Pediatric Resuscitation
Medication errors are common in children. Characteristics of errors during critical
 situations in the Emergency Department are ill-defined and might be more frequent than
 previously thought. However, optimal strategies to eliminate the risk of prescribing errors
 remain unknown.

 Many smartphone apps have been suggested over the last years with some of them designed to
 calculate medication dosage for children. The impact of these apps to decrease dosage error
 has never been evaluated in resuscitation setting.

 The aim of the study is to evaluate whether the use of a smartphone application designed to
 calculate medication doses decreases prescribing errors among residents during pediatric
 simulated resuscitations.

 This will be a crossover-randomized trial using high fidelity simulation among 40 residents
 rotating in the pediatric emergency department.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Residents (PGY1 to PGY4)

 -  Completing a rotation in pediatric emergency

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Residents who previously participated in this study