Educating Anesthesia Residents to Improve Perioperative Care for the Elderly

Duke University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anesthesia

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03008863

Pro00069462

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. The investigators will design, test and implement a education curriculum for anesthesia residents teaching geriatric anesthesiology.
2. The investigators will randomize 42 anesthesia residents so that half receive an innovative, e-learning curriculum while the other half receives the current standard curriculum. We will assess their medical knowledge, and the amount of anesthesia delivered to patients after the curriculum is implemented.
3. The investigators will analyze any changes in clinical practice of residents in the care of elderly patients. Enrollment will be voluntary for all residents. Also, the investigators will not interfere with clinical management of any patients by residents which are done under direct supervision of faculty.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Duke Anesthesiology Resident
• Willing to comply with study activities and guidelines

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to comply with study activities and guidelines

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Education Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The investigators will use an electronic learning (E-learning) curriculum with an educational video and a user-centered checklist for anesthesia residents. This E-learning curriculum will cover how to care for geriatric patients in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative settings, and specific interventions that have been shown to improve postoperative outcomes in older patients. The checklist will be user-centered. It will remind providers of what they learned in the video and online curriculum, and how to apply these lessons in real-time while they are caring for older patients.

Treatment:

Other: Education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Residents randomized to this group will receive the current, standard education provided for all Duke Anesthesiology residents.