Moderate Sedation Educational Software

• Sponsor: University of Utah (Other)
• Overall Status: Unknown status
• CT.gov ID: NCT00708760
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 80
• Location: 1
• Duration (Months): 89
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 0.9

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

We propose to develop and evaluate an interactive education software for administering moderate sedation by non-anesthesiologists.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Moderate Sedation Training	Behavioral: paper based training; Behavioral: web based training

Detailed Description

The course will be founded upon JCAHO's and ASA's guidelines for sedation, emphasizing the concepts with animations, audio, scenarios, and quizzes. Interactive feedback will be incorporated to guide the clinician during the course. The course will be offered commercially over the World Wide Web, with successful completion providing continuing medical education (CME) credit. It will fulfill JCAHO recommended guidelines. In a controlled simulated environment, the hypothesis that the web based training protocol will provide the practitioner the knowledge base necessary to manage the four scenarios as well or better than practitioners completing the standard moderate sedation certification course will be tested.

1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the course. The University of Utah Center for Patient Simulation is an ideal environment to evaluate the efficacy of a web-based training course. The new web-based course will be compared to standard course material and lessons. We will recruit 40 nurses who administer moderate sedation at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Half of the nurses will receive traditional training (typical course and guidelines published from the literature), and half will receive the web-based course. Users will be tested on their knowledge of moderate sedation with four moderate sedation scenarios, in which the simulated patient experiences over-sedation, apnea, and excessive pain.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Anticipated Enrollment: 80 participants
• Observational Model: Case-Crossover
• Time Perspective: Prospective
• Official Title: Moderate Sedation Education Software
• Study Start Date: Apr 1, 2007
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Jun 1, 2014
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Sep 1, 2014

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
2 web based learning group	Behavioral: web based training; read and view selected web based material, test skills learned in simulator lab
1 paper based learning group	Behavioral: paper based training; read selected material, test skills learned in simulator lab

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. to determine which group - web based or paper based is more effective [at the end of simulation]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• general nursing staff at the University of Utah

• currently required to obtain moderate sedation training

• an equal basis all clinicians in the respective departments

Exclusion Criteria:

• nurses and other personnel who do not administer moderate sedation

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Utah	Salt Lake City	Utah	United States	84132

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Utah

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: James Agutter, University of Utah

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Jim Agutter, PI, University of Utah
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00708760
• Other Study ID Numbers: 23011; University of Utah VIP grant
• First Posted: Jul 2, 2008
• Last Update Posted: Mar 7, 2012
• Last Verified: Mar 1, 2012

• Keywords provided by Jim Agutter, PI, University of Utah: web based learning; moderate sedation

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Mar 7, 2012