Simulating Laparoscopy With an Eye Patch

Laparoscopic Training Clinical Trial

— LapACQ  

Official title:

Laparoscopic Skill Acquisition; Can the Loss of Depth Perception Associated With Laparoscopic Surgery be Adequately Simulated by an Eye Patch?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03407235
• Other study ID #: LTf15082013 ammend. 2
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 11, 2017
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: December 2017
• Source: University of Nottingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Comparison of laparoscopic training simulator v use of eye patch (to simulate loss of dept perception) to investigate acquisition of laparoscopic skills.

Description:

Healthy volunteers who are laparoscopic novices will perform four validated laparoscopic training exercises on both the laparoscopic computerized trainer and on a simple box trainer with an eye patch.

Novices will be allowed to familiarize themselves with the laparoscopic instruments and will be shown short video clips to demonstrate tasks.

They then will have five minutes to complete each of the four tasks. They will return 1-2 weeks later to complete the same process on the alternative training method.

All participants will complete the tasks on both the computerized lap simulator and the box trainer.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Laparoscopic Novices

• 20-40 years

• All genders

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous laparoscopic surgical experience

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Laparoscopic Training

Intervention

Device:
• Computerized Laparoscopic Trainer
Gold standard laparoscopic trainer using simulated computerized equipment.
• Box trainer with eye patch
Simple, cost effective box trainer, with loss of dept perception achieved with use of eye patch

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	The Medical School, University of Nottingham, Royal Derby Hospital.	Derby
United Kingdom	University Of Nottingham	Derby

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nottingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time to completion of laparoscopic tasks.		5 minutes