Acute cardiac care & resuscitationCross-sectional study
Perceived cognitive load among emergency department code blue teams: distribution, correlates and relationship with team performance
- multicentre cross-sectional study with prospective data collection
Authors' conclusion
Perceived cognitive load was unevenly distributed within resuscitation teams, with highest levels among team leaders. Higher team leader cognitive load was associated with higher load among other team members and lower TEAM-assessed performance, highlighting team leader cognitive load as a relevant target for future research and interventions to support resuscitation team performance.
Study context
- Population
- Authentic clinical emergency department code blue (resuscitation) teamshealthcare professional observations in 58 resuscitations · resuscitations 58
- Participants
- 228 participants
- Exposure
- Perceived cognitive load across team roles and its association with team performance
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Team leaders, highest across roles
mean 5.5, SD 1.7
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Team leader role and perceived cognitive load (multilevel analysis)
- β (team leader role)
- β = 1.12, 95% CI 0.27-1.98, p = 0.025
- Increasing age and more than ten years of clinical experience associated with lower load
Team leaders' perceived cognitive load and cognitive load among team members
- β (positive association)
- β = 0.53, 95% CI 0.38-0.67, p < 0.001
Team leaders' perceived cognitive load and Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM)-assessed team performance
- β (negative association)
- β = −0.80, 95% CI −1.38 to −0.23, p = 0.007
Original publication
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it