Overview
CLOT
We present an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomized, high-fidelity simulation study conducted over 3 consecutive weeks in January and February 2022 at the Simulation Center of the University Hospital Zurich as part of the annual simulation training program of the Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.We randomly allocated teams (consisting of a senior anesthesiologist, a resident anesthesiologist, and an anesthesia nurse) to the intervention group, “Visual Clot,” or the control group, “standard ROTEM temograms” (The study institution follows a center-wide coagulation management algorithm (The study flow diagram shows enrolled anesthesia teams, the assignment to the different scenarios, and the display modalities used, as well as excluded teams and analyzed data. ROTEM: rotational thrombelastometry.