Evaluation of Learning Curve of Manual Skills in Anesthesia Residents

Mahidol University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Epidural Anesthesia Skill; Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation Skill; Radial Artery Cannulation Skill; Spinal Anesthesia Skill; Intubation Skill; Laryngeal Mask Airway Insertion Skill

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01236183

Si246/2553(E)

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine number of cases need to perform in new anesthesia residents to be proficient in manual skills.

Full description

Manual skills in anesthesia are complex and unique to learn. The adequate cases need to be done to reach optimal success rate for each procedure is still varied from data available from the publications.

This study is designed to evaluate the number of cases need to perform in new anesthesia residents to be proficient in anesthesia skills, which are intubation, laryngeal mask insertion, spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, radial artery cannulation and internal jugular vein cannulation.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• new anesthesia residents

Exclusion criteria

• none