Effect of Preoperative Simulator Warmup on Intraoperative Robotic Surgical Skills
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Official title
Effect of Preoperative Warmup on a Simulator by Trainee Surgeons on Intraoperative Robotic Surgical Skill and Postoperative Patient Outcomes
Brief summary
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Surgical residents and fellows acquire operative knowledge and skills by assisting attending surgeons in the operating room. Previous research has shown that practising technical skills prior to operating on patients can improve how skillfully laparoscopic surgery can be performed. Although an increasingly large number of patients are undergoing robotic hysterectomy and other robotic surgical procedures, little is known on how to ensure patient safety and treatment effectiveness when trainee surgeons participate in the operating room. Our study aims to determine the impact of immediate preoperative warm-up on a robotic surgery simulator by gynecologic surgical trainees on their intraoperative performance and on patient outcomes. The investigators are randomly assigning gynecologic surgical trainees at a major academic medical center to either warm-up immediately before surgery on a robotic surgery simulator or to not warm-up. The attending surgeon supervising the trainee in the operating room is unaware of whether the trainee was assigned to warm-up or no warm-up. The investigators will compare standard robotic surgical skills assessments of the trainees by the supervising attending surgeons and patient outcomes in the two groups.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01969487
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 22 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 30, 2012
- Primary completion
- May 31, 2014
- Completion
- May 31, 2014
- Last update posted
- Nov 11, 2020
2012 – 2014
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205 | — |
| Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21224 | — |
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