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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04451590
Virtual Reality: a Teaching-learning Strategy for Cognitive Mastery in Airway Trauma Management (AW&VR)
Virtual Reality: a Teaching-learning Strategy for Cognitive Mastery in Airway Trauma
Airway injury in patients is a high risk and complex medical crisis. Unfortunately, training for airway management in injured patients is challenging. The most effective way of practicing airway management is using mannequins. However, mannequin training is expensive and only occasionally available to medical trainees.
The purpose of this study is to determine if Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to educate medical students on airway injury management. VR training will involve managing the care of a patient with an airway injury in an immersive, interactive VR hospital trauma bay. The investigators will compare the knowledge gained from VR training vs. mannequin training. The investigators will also investigate whether VR training teaches students faster than mannequin training. In addition, the investigators will identify factors which might affect learning from VR.
Medical students who choose to participate will be randomized (i.e. participant will have a 50% chance to be placed in either group) to be trained with VR or a mannequin. Participants then will be trained on airway injury management using their assigned training approach. One week later, all participants will be assessed on their airway injury management skills using a mannequin. Before and after their sessions, participants will also be asked to complete a questionnaire on their clinical decision-making. Participants who received VR training will also complete a questionnaire about their experience with the VR training.
This study will help develop a new approach to airway management training which is cheaper and more easily available to medical trainees than mannequin training. This educational tool could lead to better treatment of airway trauma in future patients.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Alam Fahad, MD, M.Sc
- Phone Number: 4798 416-480-4864
- Email: fahad.alam@sunnybrook.ca
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Lilia Kaustov, PhD
- Phone Number: 89607 416-480-6100
- Email: lilia.kaustov@sunnybrook.ca
Study Locations
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Ontario
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5
- Recruiting
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences
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Principal Investigator:
- Fahad Alam, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 at time of consent
- Medical student at U of T in 1st, 2nd or 3rd year
- Able to attend two sessions a week apart
Exclusion Criteria:
- Lack of participant consent or capacity to give consent
- History of significant motion sickness (during exposure to physical, visual and virtual motion, cybersickness verbally declared by patient)
- Visual/hearing impairments that affect abilities to listen/watch videos/VR video
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Other
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: VR-based Simulation (Intervention)
Students will receive training on traumatic airway management using VR-based simulation.
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Participants will experience a novel interactive and immersive VR full size trauma bay with an adult patient and healthcare professionals.
Immersed in the environment, learners undertake the decision-making steps in managing the medical care for a patient with an airway injury.
Learners are first given the case scenario from which they form their own learning goals/plans.
They then navigate through the scenario that will provide feedback depending on their actions in the form of either the patient's hemodynamic changes or prompts from healthcare avatars in the scenario.
These feedback processes are built-in and designed to promote reflection and reorganization of the learner's decision-making strategies.
As learning progresses, fewer prompts will be given.
At the end of the scenario, evaluation algorithms pre-programmed into the VR-based simulation will be displayed.
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Other: Mannequin-based Simulation (Control)
Students will receive training on traumatic airway management using mannequin-based simulation.
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Participants will experience a mannequin-based scenario practice which is the current gold standard in medical education.
The trauma airway management scenario will match the VR environment and sequence of events.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Traumatic Airway Injury Management Knowledge
Time Frame: up to 24 hours before and up to 24 hours after practice sessions
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Knowledge acquisition of traumatic airway injury management as assessed by the written Key Features Decision Making Checklist, Change from baseline (pre-training) knowledge to after practice session knowledge (post-training).
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up to 24 hours before and up to 24 hours after practice sessions
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Application of Traumatic Airway Injury Management Knowledge
Time Frame: 7 days after practice session
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Application of decision making concepts surrounding traumatic airway injury management as assessed by the Airway Injury Checklist of Core Decision Making Steps completed during participant performance of a simulated crisis assessment scenario.
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7 days after practice session
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of Required Practice Sessions
Time Frame: During the 1 day practice session
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Identify whether VR or mannequin-based simulation practice require fewer practice sessions to achieve learning objectives.
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During the 1 day practice session
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Collaborators and Investigators
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 108-2019
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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