Clinical trial NCT06445764: Traumatic Cardiac Arrest and Trauma SimVR Training
Official title: Enhancing Trauma Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Simulation Training With the Use of Virtual Reality (Trauma SimVR): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Virtual Reality
Heart Arrest
Keywords: in-hospital cardiac arrest
Education, Medical
Lead sponsor: Medical University of Vienna
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-06-06
Enrollment: 67
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 110
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this single-center, prospective, randomized, controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of using virtual reality technology to provide learners with skills and knowledge in the management of traumatic cardiac arrest in first-year residents at the emergency department.

The main question it aims to answer is:

Does the use of virtual reality in the context of trauma cardiopulmonary resuscitation training result in shorter times to order/perform pre-defined critical actions?

Participants will learn management skills for in-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest using either newly developed virtual reality software or e-learning focused on the same content.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* first-year residents at the emergency department
* only people who do not need eyeglasses for using VR

Exclusion Criteria:

- pre-disposition for cybersickness (motion sickness, pregnancy, pre-existing cybersickness)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time to critical action
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Time to secondary critical action #1
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Time to secondary critical action #2
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Number of unrecognized causes of traumatic cardiac arrest
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Number of patients declared dead prematurely
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Number of protocol deviations
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Gender-differences in learning outcomes
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Group difference in global cognitive load while performing the in-person assessment simulation
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Group difference in cognitive load (per objective) while performing the in-person assessment simulation
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Gaze behavior during the in-person assessment simulation: dwell-time in areas of interest
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Gaze behavior during the in-person assessment simulation: fixation count in areas of interest
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Gaze behavior during the in-person assessment simulation: average fixation duration in areas of interest
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Gaze behavior during the in-person assessment simulation: time when no area of interest is illustrated
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Participants' subjective impressions of their learning progress when using virtual reality/e-learning
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Participants' subjective impressions of their level of frustration when using virtual reality/e-learning
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Participants' subjective impression of their level of enjoyment when using virtual reality/e-learning
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Participants' subjective confidence in recognizing and providing initial care to polytraumatized patients in cardiac arrest in the in-person assessment simulation
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Participants' subjective overall performance in the simulation sessions
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Participants' overall performance in the simulation sessions from the expert's point of view
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: The correlation between how often participants have played virtual reality video games in the past 12 months and the primary outcome
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: The correlation between how often participants have played virtual reality video games between the ages of 6 and 18 and the primary outcome
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: The correlation between how often participants have played non-virtual-reality video games in the past 12 months and the primary outcome
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: The correlation between how often participants have played non-virtual-reality video games between the ages of 6 and 18 and the primary outcome
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Incidence rate of virtual reality related adverse events
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: System usability score for use of VR simulations
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
measure: Adjective Rating Scale for the use of the virtual reality simulations
timeFrame: evaluation within 4 weeks after study completion
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vienna
country: Austria
facility: Medical University of Vienna
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