Robotic Cardiac Surgery Wet Lab Simulation Study

Aalborg University Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Robotic Cardiac Surgery Simulation

Treatments

Procedure: Wet lab tasks

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05043064

2020-000992-55

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to investigate validity of the wet lab robotic cardiac surgery model used for training in robotic cardiac surgery and to evaluate learning curves in trainees of different surgical specialities. The investigators hope to recruit experienced robotic cardiac surgeons (experts) and cardiac and non-cardiac surgeons with minimal robotic experience (trainees). Participants will perform three predetermined tasks common in the wet lab robotic cardiac surgery training. Participants will be evaluated at baseline for each task. From experts' performance the mastery learning level will be calculated. Trainees will perform the tasks until mastery is achieved. The investigators will then be able to evaluate validity of the wet lab model and analyze learning curves in all participants by rating their performance.

Enrollment

19 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Experienced robotic cardiac surgeons: robotic surgeons with total volume > 50 robotic cardiac operations and at least 20 robotic cases annually
Cardiac surgeons with limited robotic experience (robotic novices): on-going or completed cardio-thoracic residency
Non-cardiac surgeons with limited robotic experience (robotic novices): on-going or completed surgical specialty residency (general surgery, urology, gynaecology, ENT surgery)

Exclusion criteria