Effect of Continuously Coached Practice Using EMS on ERCP Performance of Trainees

Air Force Military Medical University of People's Liberation Army

Status: Suspended

Conditions: Selective Cannulation Rate of Trainees Receiving ERCP Training

Treatments: Device: Hands-on EMS training; Other: Standard training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02022605

20131208-4 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Previous studies have demonstrated that coached EMS practice at the beginning of ERCP training could improve the trainees' skill. However, it is not known whether continuously coached practice using EMS can provide additional benefit.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• consecutive inpatients with naive papilla undergoing ERCP.

Exclusion criteria

• history of partial or total gastrectomy (Billroth I/II, Roux-en-Y);
• duodenal stricture (benign or melignant);
• ampullary carcinoma;
• previously failed selective cannulation;
• chronic pancreatitis with PD stone;
• minor papilla cannulation;
• servere diseases of heart, lung, brain and kidney;
• hemodynamical unstablility;
• pregnant women;
• refusal or unable to give written informed consent.

Trial design

400 participants in 2 patient groups

Hands-on EMS training group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Hands-on EMS training

Other: Standard training

Standard training group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Standard training