Assessing Usefulness of Virtual Reality Mobile Application in Flexible Videoscope Airway Training

NCT ID: NCT03663296

Last Updated: 2020-03-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 45 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-07-24
• Study Completion Date: 2019-08-11

Brief Summary

Flexible videoscope orotracheal intubation (FOI) technique is considered an important option in the management of predicted difficult airways. However, it is rarely performed in daily practice. Yet emergency physicians are expected to be able to perform this skill expertly during a crisis scenario. If it is not completed in a timely and proper fashion, the patient will deteriorate rapidly, resulting in morbidity or fatality.

There is a significant learning curve to master this complex psychomotor skill. Providing sufficient training in FOI, particularly hands-on experience in real patients is difficult. Patients with known difficult airway requiring FOI present infrequently to the emergency room. Using patients with normal airway purely for teaching of FOI is ethically controversial. To avoid technical and ethical concerns of training involving real patients, conventional teaching methods incorporate the use of a low-fidelity manikin in replacement. However, the manikin anatomy often lacks the realism of a live human.

The addition of virtual reality technology, in the form of a low-cost mobile application (Airway Ex) into the conventional simulation, may optimize learning by providing an ethical, cost-effective and more realistic modality to acquire the basic skills of FOI. If it is proven to be effective, efforts to integrate virtual reality technology into routine training of such procedures in the ED should be promoted.

We hypothesize that the addition of virtual reality mobile application to conventional training will improve procedural skill dexterity and proficiency and hence, improve learner's satisfaction and confidence in performing FOI.

Conditions

Education, Medical

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Interventional

Additional 30 minutes of self-directed learning and practice using the mobile application, after conventional training session

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Airway Ex App

Intervention Type: OTHER

30 minutes of self-directed learning and practice using the mobile application

Control

Conventional training session which includes didactic teaching and low-fidelity simulation session involving trainer's demonstration, followed by hands-on practice

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Airway Ex App

30 minutes of self-directed learning and practice using the mobile application

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All doctors from Accidental & Emergency Department of National University Hospital, Singapore

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal for consent

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National University Hospital, Singapore

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Ying Wei Yau

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National University Hospital, Singapore

Locations

National University Hospital, Singapore

Singapore, , Singapore

Countries

Singapore

Other Identifiers

AURA

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id