Teaching Neuraxial Ultrasonography With a Virtual Reality Simulator of Spine

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Neuraxial Ultrasonography

Treatments: Other: Traditional didactic teaching; Other: Teaching with VR spine simulator

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05874609

VR teaching

Details and patient eligibility

About

As one of the most extensively practiced regional block, neuraxial anesthesia is the basic skill for anesthesiologist to acquire. Recently, virtual reality (VR) has been proposed as a new simulation training method to enhance medical education. The aim of our study is to evaluate the practical skills of ultrasound scan and the satisfaction of students who undergo training using VR versus traditional didactic lecture.

Full description

This is a prospective, single-center, randomized control trial to evaluate the performance of spine ultrasound scan after different training methods. Participants were randomly divided into two groups receiving different training methods: VR spine simulator or traditional didactic teaching. After the training, participants were required to perform a preprocedural spine ultrasound scan on healthy volunteers using the stepwise technique taught in the didactic teaching session. The participants needed to acquire three key ultrasound views during the scan and recognize the anatomic structures in three ultrasound views.

Enrollment: 46 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• anesthesia residents in our department

Exclusion criteria

• having previous experience of spine ultrasonography training
• having previous experience of spine ultrasound scan.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

VR group

Experimental group

Description:

In the VR group, the participants spent 30 minutes with the VR spine simulator after receiving the didactic teaching session.

Treatment:

Other: Teaching with VR spine simulator

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

In the control group, the participants received a 30-min traditional didactic teaching session of spine ultrasonography.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional didactic teaching