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Introduction of an Operating Room Black Box to Identify, Analyse and Prevent Errors in the Vascular Hybrid Room

Recruiting
Conditions
Patient Safety
Endovascular Procedures
Quality Improvement
Interventions
Other: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Registration Number
NCT04854278
Lead Sponsor
University Ghent
Brief Summary

The "OR Black box", an inclusive multiport data capturing system has been developed and successfully used for detailed analysis of laparoscopic surgical procedures. A pilot study has shown that this system can be successfully installed in the hybrid room at Ghent University Hospital and used for detailed analysis of intra-operative errors and radiation safety issues in endovascular procedures.

Secondary analysis of pilot study data via direct video coding assessed the relationship between leadership style of the surgeon and team behavior and possible fluctuations during surgery.

This novel approach allows a prospective objective assessment of human and environmental factors as well as measurement of errors, events and outcomes. In this study, the aim is to use the acquired knowledge to characterize a chain of events, identify high-risk interventions and identify areas for improvement, both on an organizational, team or individual level.

Hypothesis: non-technical skills, environmental factors and teamwork in the hybrid room correlate with surgical technical performance and error rates. Furthermore, we hypothesize that incidents and adverse events can be tracked to a chain of errors that is influenced by technical and non-technical skills as well as environmental factors.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
222
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients undergoing elective (planned more than 48 hours) endovascular procedures.
  • Symptomatic aortic-iliac-femoral-popliteal-below the knee atherosclerotic stenotic or occlusive disease (PVI)
  • Endovascular exclusion of thoracic aortic, infrarenal abdominal aortic and/or iliac aneurysm repair (EVAR)
Exclusion Criteria
  • No consent of patient
  • No consent of all endovascular team members
  • Emergency procedure (planned < 48h before)
  • Endovascular procedure not treating atherosclerotic aortic-iliac-femoral-popliteal-below the knee disease or aortic-iliac aneurysm

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Post measurementMassive Open Online Course (MOOC)Post measurement of +/- 100 cases after implementation of a Massive Open Online Course
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
ErrorIntraoperative errors will be measured per case through study completion, an average of 1.5 years.

Evaluate errors during elective endovascular procedures in a hybrid room (error rate)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Psycho-social well-beingThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess psycho-social well-being of teammembers in the hybrid room via a pre and post procedure survey for each case

Technical skills - EVAR - EVARATEThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess technical skills of the surgeon on EVARATE (EndoVascular Aortic Repair Assessment of Technical Expertise) (range: 7-35) (the higher the score, the better)

Distractions - doorsThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess distractions in the hybrid room: DiSI (Distractions in surgery index). Number of times doors open

Radiation Safety - behaviorThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess radiation safety behavior: Radiation safety scale (Range: 11-55) (the higher the score, the better)

Non-technical skills - surgical teamThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess non-technical skills of the surgeon via NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons)

Distractions - peopleThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess distractions in the hybrid room: DiSI (Distractions in surgery index). Maximal number of people in the room

Radiation Safety - dose AKThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess radiation safety dose: Air Kerma (AK)

Radiation Safety - fluoroscopy timeThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess radiation safety dose: Fluoroscopy time (FT)

Technical skills - PVIThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess technical skills of the surgeon on Global rating scale (range: 8-40) (the higher the score, the better)

Technical skills - EVAR - GRSThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess technical skills of the surgeon on Global rating scale (GRS) (range: 8-40) (the higher the score, the better)

Technical skills - EVAR - PRSThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess technical skills of the surgeon on Procedure Specific rating scale (PRS) (range: 7-35) (the higher the score, the better)

Non-technical skills - nursing teamThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess non-technical skills of the surgeon via SPLINTS (Non-technical skills of the scrub practitioner)

Distractions - auditoryThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess distractions in the hybrid room: DiSI (Distractions in surgery index). Number and type of Auditory distractions

Radiation Safety - dose DAPThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess radiation safety dose: Dose Area Product (DAP)

Incident reportsThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess number of incident reports (obligatory existing platform in the hospital to report incidents) during Operation Black Black Box (ORBB) cases - incident rate

Error work cultureThrough study completion, an average of 1.5 years

Assess error work culture in the hybrid room via a baseline survey: 10 items, each scored on a 5-Point Likert scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UZ Gent

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Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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