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title: Simulation-based Arthroscopic Surgery Study
nct_id: NCT02777333
overall_status: COMPLETED
phase: NA
sponsor: University of Oxford
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Arthroscopy Training
countries: United Kingdom
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clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02777333"
ct_last_update_post_date: 2021-06-18
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# Simulation-based Arthroscopic Surgery Study

**NCT ID:** [NCT02777333](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02777333)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 30
- **Lead Sponsor:** University of Oxford
- **Conditions:** Arthroscopy Training
- **Start Date:** 2016-01
- **Completion Date:** 2017-07
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2021-06-18

## Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether simulation training improves the performance during arthroscopic surgery ('keyhole' surgery into a joint).

## Detailed Description

This single blinded randomised controlled study of junior orthopaedic trainees aims to assess whether the addition of simulation training improves arthroscopic technical skills performance of junior orthopaedic trainees during knee arthroscopy in the operating theatre compared to their usual clinical training programme. This will be assessed using objective motion analysis parameters recorded from wireless elbow-mounted motion sensors during surgery.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** Yes

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Inclusion Criteria:

* Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.
* Healthy adults, Male or Female, aged 18 years or above.
* Enrolled in Health Education Thames Valley/Oxford Deanery Training Programme in junior surgical training posts

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unwilling or unable to provide informed consent
* Previously completed higher surgical training programme
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## Arms

- **Simulation training** (EXPERIMENTAL) — Addition of simulation training during usual clinical training as part of a GMC (General Medical Council) recognised Deanery training programme
- **Non-simulation/Routine training** (NO_INTERVENTION) — Usual clinical training as part of a GMC (General Medical Council) recognised Deanery training programme

## Interventions

- **Simulation training** (BEHAVIORAL) — Simulation training in a skills lab for 1 hour per week over 13 weeks on dry, bench-top box trainers and anatomical simulators

## Primary Outcomes

- **Number of Hand Movements Required by Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_ — Wireless elbow-mounted accelerometer and gyroscopic sensors worn by the participant will generate 6 degree of freedom motion data (three rotational degrees around the x, y and z axes, known as 'roll', 'pitch', and 'yaw', and three translational degrees of freedom along x, y and z axes, known as 'surge', 'sway' and 'heave') which will be analysed using validated, bespoke algorithms to calculate the number of hand movements taken whilst performing a diagnostic knee arthroscopy according to a standardised protocol.

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Smoothness of Hand Movements by Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Time Taken by Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Minor Hand Movements Required by Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Stationary Time of Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Idle Time of Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Dominance of Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Global Rating Scale Performance During Diagnostic Knee Arthroscopy in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Deviation From 'Idealised' Motion Parameters for Participants to Perform a Diagnostic Arthroscopy of the Knee in Theatre** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Motion Analysis Parameters During Simulation** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Resting State Network Functional Changes on fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Voxel Based Morphometry Structural Changes on fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Diffusion Tractography Structural Changes on fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Quantitative Magnetisation Transfer Structural Changes on fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)** _(time frame: 3 months)_
- **Feasibility of Additional Simulation Training** _(time frame: 3 months)_

## Locations (1)

- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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