NCT03054272

Visual Perception Exploration Using Eye-tracking Technology in a Cannot Intubate/Cannot Oxygenate Simulation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université de Montréal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Using eye-tracking technology, the aim of this observational study is to compare the visual interests between attending physicians and residents watching a Cannot Intubate/Cannot Oxygenate (CICO) scripted and simulated scenario

Detailed description

Attending physicians and residents, from the department of Anesthesiology at the Université de Montréal were recruited on a voluntary basis. A 13-minute video based on a suggested CICO algorithm from the Difficult Airway Society to manage unanticipated difficult intubation in adults (3) was produced at the University of Montreal Simulation Centre using high-fidelity settings. The scenario was about a patient, with a cervical collar, in the post-anesthesia care unit. Throughout the video, the patient presents increasing respiratory distress worsening to respiratory failure. The anesthesiologist fails to ventilate, intubate and insert a laryngeal mask leading to a cricothyroidotomy. All participants were looking at a screen on which the scenario was broadcast. The screen was equipped with TobiiEyeX®, an eye-tracking system that automatically aggregates gaze data.

Conditions

• Patient Simulation
• Perception
• Intubation; Difficult or Failed

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Video	A 13-minute video based on a suggested CICO algorithm from the Difficult Airway Society that was produced at the University of Montreal Simulation Centre using high-fidelity settings.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-02-01
• Completion: 2017-04-01
• First posted: 2017-02-15
• Last updated: 2017-05-02