TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching intravenous cannulation to medical students
T2 - 13th Annual Conference on Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now, MMVR 2005
AU - Bowyer, Mark W.
AU - Pimentel, Elisabeth A.
AU - Fellows, Jennifer B.
AU - Scofield, Ryan L.
AU - Ackerman, Vincent L.
AU - Horne, Patrick E.
AU - Liu, Alan V.
AU - Schwartz, Gerald R.
AU - Scerbo, Mark W.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This study examines the effectiveness of two virtual reality simulators when compared with traditional methods of teaching intravenous (IV) cannulation to third year medical students. Thirty-four third year medical students were divided into four groups and then trained to perform an IV cannulation using either CathSim™, Virtual I.V. ™, a plastic simulated arm or by practicing IV placement on each other. All subjects watched a five minute training video and completed a cannulation pretest and posttest on the simulated arm. The results showed significant improvement from pretest to posttest in each of the four groups. Students trained on the Virtual I.V.™ showed significantly greater improvement over baseline when compared with the simulated arm group (p < .026). Both simulators provided at least equal training to traditional methods of teaching, a finding with implications for future training of this procedure to novices.
AB - This study examines the effectiveness of two virtual reality simulators when compared with traditional methods of teaching intravenous (IV) cannulation to third year medical students. Thirty-four third year medical students were divided into four groups and then trained to perform an IV cannulation using either CathSim™, Virtual I.V. ™, a plastic simulated arm or by practicing IV placement on each other. All subjects watched a five minute training video and completed a cannulation pretest and posttest on the simulated arm. The results showed significant improvement from pretest to posttest in each of the four groups. Students trained on the Virtual I.V.™ showed significantly greater improvement over baseline when compared with the simulated arm group (p < .026). Both simulators provided at least equal training to traditional methods of teaching, a finding with implications for future training of this procedure to novices.
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 2005138210
AN - SCOPUS:23844482937
SN - 1586034987
SN - 9781586034986
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 57
EP - 63
BT - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 26 January 2005 through 29 January 2005
ER -