Journal article
Assessment of an Interactive Learning System with “Sensorized” Manikin Head for Airway Management Instruction
Anesthesia and analgesia, Vol.79(1), pp.136-142
07/1994
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199407000-00026
PMID: 8010424
Abstract
An interactive, self-study learning system for airway management instruction that utilizes a “sensorized” manikin head (Actronics Inc., Pittsburgh, PA) was compared to didactic instruction from anesthesiologists during third-year medical student anesthesia rotations. Before students were allowed to participate in airway management on anesthetized patients, they were randomly separated into two groups. One group received instruction from the learning system, and the other group was given a lecture with guided practice on a standard tracheal intubating manikin. Differences between groups were then assessed using 22 separate variables as all students performed actual airway management on patients undergoing general anesthesia. Anesthesia faculty, residents, and nurse anesthetists, blinded to group, served as assessors. There were 48 and 49 students in the didactic instruction and learning system groups, respectively. Beginning experience level of students with respect to airway management was similar between groups before the anesthesia rotations. There were 185 and 188 evaluation forms completed to assess the didactic instruction and learning system groups, respectively. Demographic data regarding patients were recorded. Patients in the learning system group on whom students performed airway management were older, had a larger average body mass index, and their airways more frequently received higher Mallampati classifications (glottic structures more difficult to visualize). No difference in the quality of airway management efforts or in studentsʼ appraisal of their own performances was seen between groups. Neither group demonstrated more rapid development of psychomotor skills. Students were equally satisfied with both methods of instruction. We conclude that the airway management self-study learning system is as efficacious as didactic instruction for preclinical airway management instruction during third-year medical student anesthesia rotations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessment of an Interactive Learning System with “Sensorized” Manikin Head for Airway Management Instruction
- Creators
- Robert From - Department of Anesthesia and Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, †Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, ‡Department of Surgery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MichiganKent PearsonMark AlbaneseJohn MoyersSigurdur SigurdssonDavid Dull
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Anesthesia and analgesia, Vol.79(1), pp.136-142
- Publisher
- International Anesthesia Research Society
- DOI
- 10.1213/00000539-199407000-00026
- PMID
- 8010424
- ISSN
- 0003-2999
- eISSN
- 1526-7598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1994
- Academic Unit
- Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984006315202771
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