Development and Impact Assessment of Virtual Reality Simulator on the Education of the Endotracheal Intubation in the Medical Students

NCT03681301 | Terminated

• 1 other identifier: 4-2018-0571
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 70
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The medical school educates students on essential skills, which is an important task. Especially, endotracheal intubation is considered an important option in the management of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 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 may optimize learning by providing an ethical, cost-effective and more realistic modality to acquire the basic skills of intubation. If it is proven to be effective, efforts to integrate virtual reality technology into routine training of such procedures in the medical school should be promoted. The investigators 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 endotracheal intubation.

Conditions

Medical Education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Total score of required 20-key points of intubation during endotracheal intubation procedure

  During the intubation training evaluation using manikin, the score was added by using the check list Which is consisted of the patient's positioning, opening the mouth, laryngoscope handling, glottis view evaluation, insertion and fixation of the endotracheal tube, etc, and consists of a total of 20 points

  within 1 month after training session

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Intubation complete time (secs)

  within 1 months after training session

• Overall proficiency grading (fail/ pass/ high pass/ honors)

  within 1 months after training session

• Overall confidence, anxiety, comfort level: 5-point Likert scale (1 = very low, 2 = low, 3 = moderate, 4 = high, 5 = very high)

  within 1 months after training session

Study Arms (2)

Interventional

EXPERIMENTAL

Additional self-directed learning and practice using virtual reality simulator, after conventional training session

Other: virtual reality simulator

Control

NO INTERVENTION

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

Interventions

virtual reality simulator OTHER

Additional self-directed learning and practice using virtual reality simulator

Also known as: virtual reality simulator for endotracheal intubation

Interventional

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 40 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

Participants included medical school students without intubation intubation experience

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Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yonsei University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine

Seoul, 03722, South Korea

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Intubation, Intratracheal

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Airway Management; Therapeutics; Intubation; Investigative Techniques

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Parallel Assignment

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 20, 2018
• First Posted: September 24, 2018
• Study Start: August 3, 2019
• Primary Completion: August 31, 2019
• Study Completion: August 31, 2019
• Last Updated: January 2, 2020

Record last verified: 2019-12

Locations

KR (1)