Moderate Sedation Educational Software

Terminated

• Conditions: Moderate Sedation Training
• Interventions: Behavioral: web based training; Behavioral: paper based training

• Registration Number: NCT00708760
• Lead Sponsor: University of Utah

Brief Summary

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

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 Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-04
• Study First Submitted: 2008-06-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-06-30
• Study First Posted: 2008-07-02
• Status Verified: 2012-03
• Primary Completion: 2012-08-01
• Study Completion: 2012-08-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-04-13
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 38

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
2	web based training	web based learning group
1	paper based training	paper based learning group

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
to determine which group - web based or paper based is more effective	at the end of simulation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Utah; 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States