Clinical trial NCT03434002: Virtual Reality Simulation for Teaching and Assessment of Anesthesia Crisis Management
Official title: Virtual Reality Simulation for Teaching and Assessment of Anesthesia Crisis Management
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Patient Simulation
Keywords: Virtual Reality Simulation
Teaching and Assessment
Anesthesia Crisis Management
Lead sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-02-15
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SEQUENTIAL
Intervention model description: 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 purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of tasks correctly performed
timeFrame: 1 hour
Secondary outcomes:
measure: use the Anesthesiologists' Non-Technical Skills (ANTS) tool
timeFrame: 1 hour
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Toronto Western Hospital
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto
name: Vincent Chan
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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