Virtual Reality Simulation for Teaching and Assessment of Anesthesia Crisis Management

NCT ID: NCT03434002

Last Updated: 2018-02-15

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-01-01

Study Completion Date

2020-01-31

Brief Summary

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In this study, Investigators are going to develop and test a device to apply virtual reality simulation to improve and help for teaching and assessment of anesthesia crisis management.

Detailed Description

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Competency based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-based approach to the design, implementation, assessment, and evaluation of medical education. The goals of Competency Based Medical Education are to improve patient safety, patient health outcomes, and enhance the competence and performance of individuals, groups and teams. Simulation-based training is a proven effective method to improve the skills and competency of the student by permit-ting repetitive practice before an actual procedure is performed on real patients.

e Virtual reality simulation has been used successfully to teach technical skills such as laparoscopic surgery, carotid stenting, gall bladder surgery, and knee arthroscopy.

The specific aims of this project are:

1. Build a multi-user, multi-site virtual reality simulator for anesthesia management and team training
2. Evaluate the simulation as a tool for competency based medical education
3. Compare the effectiveness of the simulator with mannequin based simulator for competency based medical education.

Conditions

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Patient Simulation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SEQUENTIAL

1. building the technical components for interaction within the virtual reality environment (phase 1);
2. application of this virtual reality in medical training (phase 2) and
3. measurement of training effectiveness with this Virtual Reality simulator against mannequin based training (phase 3).
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Arm-A

Randomized 15 residents out of 30 Post Graduate Year 1 or 2 anesthesia residents (not involved in initial Virtual Reality testing) will be receive Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity simulation training by Virtual Reality simulation

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Training by Virtual Reality Simulation

Intervention Type OTHER

Those Randomized 15 residents will be receive Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity simulation training by Virtual Reality simulation and after two weeks, they will be evaluated by investigators by using the same performance evaluation tool.

Arm-B

Randomized other 15 residents out of 30 Post Graduate Year 1 or 2 anesthesia residents (not involved in initial Virtual Reality testing) will be receive Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity simulation training by mannequin based simulation

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Training by Mannequin Based Simulation

Intervention Type OTHER

Randomized other 15 residents will be receive Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity simulation training by mannequin based simulation and after two weeks, they will be evaluated by investigators by using the same performance evaluation tool.

Interventions

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Training by Virtual Reality Simulation

Those Randomized 15 residents will be receive Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity simulation training by Virtual Reality simulation and after two weeks, they will be evaluated by investigators by using the same performance evaluation tool.

Intervention Type OTHER

Training by Mannequin Based Simulation

Randomized other 15 residents will be receive Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity simulation training by mannequin based simulation and after two weeks, they will be evaluated by investigators by using the same performance evaluation tool.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Anesthesia resident or fellow volunteers from University of Toronto

Exclusion Criteria

* Unwilling to enter the study
* Previous experience with simulator based teaching on local anesthetic systemic toxicity
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Health Network, Toronto

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Vincent Chan

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto

Locations

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Toronto Western Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Canada

Central Contacts

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Vincent Chan

Role: CONTACT

416-603-5118

Facility Contacts

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Vincent Chan

Role: primary

416-603-5118

References

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ACGME Outcome Project: Table of Toolbox Methods. (Accessed 1 Sept 2015, at http://njms.rutgers.edu/culweb/medical/documents/ToolboxofAssessmentMethods.pdf).

Reference Type BACKGROUND

McGaghie WC, Issenberg SB, Petrusa ER, Scalese RJ. A critical review of simulation-based medical education research: 2003-2009. Med Educ. 2010 Jan;44(1):50-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03547.x.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 20078756 (View on PubMed)

Salas E, DiazGranados D, Weaver SJ, King H. Does team training work? Principles for health care. Acad Emerg Med. 2008 Nov;15(11):1002-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00254.x. Epub 2008 Oct 1.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 18828828 (View on PubMed)

Sorbero ME, Farley DO, Mattke S, Lovejoy S. Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care (RAND technical report TR-462-AHRQ). Arlington, VA: RAND Corporation, 2008.

Reference Type RESULT

Ziv A, Ben-David S, Ziv M. Simulation based medical education: an opportunity to learn from errors. Med Teach. 2005 May;27(3):193-9. doi: 10.1080/01421590500126718.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 16011941 (View on PubMed)

Alonso A, Baker DP, Holtzman A, et al. Reducing medical error in the military health system: How can team training help? Hum Resour Manag Rev. 2006;16:396-415.

Reference Type RESULT

Leblanc VR. Review article: simulation in anesthesia: state of the science and looking forward. Can J Anaesth. 2012 Feb;59(2):193-202. doi: 10.1007/s12630-011-9638-8. Epub 2011 Dec 17.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 22179792 (View on PubMed)

Cook DA, Hatala R, Brydges R, Zendejas B, Szostek JH, Wang AT, Erwin PJ, Hamstra SJ. Technology-enhanced simulation for health professions education: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA. 2011 Sep 7;306(9):978-88. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1234.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 21900138 (View on PubMed)

Grantcharov TP, Kristiansen VB, Bendix J, Bardram L, Rosenberg J, Funch-Jensen P. Randomized clinical trial of virtual reality simulation for laparoscopic skills training. Br J Surg. 2004 Feb;91(2):146-50. doi: 10.1002/bjs.4407.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 14760660 (View on PubMed)

Nguyen N, Elliott JO, Watson WD, Dominguez E. Simulation Improves Nontechnical Skills Performance of Residents During the Perioperative and Intraoperative Phases of Surgery. J Surg Educ. 2015 Sep-Oct;72(5):957-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2015.03.005. Epub 2015 Apr 21.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 25911460 (View on PubMed)

Neal JM, Hsiung RL, Mulroy MF, Halpern BB, Dragnich AD, Slee AE. ASRA checklist improves trainee performance during a simulated episode of local anesthetic systemic toxicity. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2012 Jan-Feb;37(1):8-15. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31823d825a.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 22157743 (View on PubMed)

Koutantji, Maria, et al.

Reference Type RESULT

Other Identifiers

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15-9985

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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