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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Medical Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: virtual reality simulator

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 70
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Korea, Republic of
  • Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 03722
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 20 years to 40 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Participants included medical school students without intubation intubation experience

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control; Conventional training session which includes didactic teaching and low-fidelity simulation session involving trainer's demonstration, followed by hands-on practice
Experimental: Interventional; Additional self-directed learning and practice using virtual reality simulator, after conventional training session	Other: virtual reality simulator; Additional self-directed learning and practice using virtual reality simulator; Other Names: virtual reality simulator for endotracheal intubation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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 Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Intubation complete time (secs)	Impact assessment of virtual reality simulator for endotracheal intubation	within 1 months after training session
Overall proficiency grading (fail/ pass/ high pass/ honors)	Impact assessment of virtual reality simulator for endotracheal intubation	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)	Impact assessment of virtual reality simulator for endotracheal intubation	within 1 months after training session

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yonsei University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 3, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): August 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 20, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 20, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): September 24, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 2, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 27, 2019
• Last Verified: December 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 4-2018-0571

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No