NCT03407235

Simulating Laparoscopy With an Eye Patch

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nottingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Laparoscopic Training

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Computerized Laparoscopic Trainer	Gold standard laparoscopic trainer using simulated computerized equipment.
DEVICE	Box trainer with eye patch	Simple, cost effective box trainer, with loss of dept perception achieved with use of eye patch

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-11
• Primary completion: 2018-05-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2018-01-23
• Last updated: 2018-10-15

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom