Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Michael Wee
ORCID ID
Contact details
Anaesthetic Department
Poole Hospital NHS Trust
Longfleet Road
Poole
Dorset
BH15 2JB
United Kingdom
+44 01202 442443
m.wee@virgin.net
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0231111990
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Do senior house officers (SHOs) in anaesthesia who have received training with an epidural simulator perform epidural analgesia better than those who have not?
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Surgery: Anaesthesia
Intervention
Randomised controlled trial.
Intervention type
Procedure/Surgery
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Failure rate in the first 25 epidurals inserted by each SHO.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/02/2002
Overall trial end date
01/12/2006
Reason abandoned
Lack of staff/facilities/resources
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
62 SHOs in anaesthesia in their first 12 months of training working at the five participating hospitals.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
62
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/02/2002
Recruitment end date
01/12/2006
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Anaesthetic Department
Poole, Dorset
BH15 2JB
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary