MedTrace Logo

Improvement of the Performance of Lumbar Punctures After Training Students With an Augmented Reality SIMulator

NCT05269238 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-01-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Lumbar punctures (LP) are frequent invasive procedures that are anxiety-provoking for both the patient and the clinicans performing the procedure. LP is performed by many practitioners, whether they are emergency physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, internists or rheumatologists. Learning how to perform LP is essentially done at the patient's bed by showing the students how a procedure is performed and then having them perform it directly on a patient afterwards. The recent development of simulation in health care with the credo "never the first time on the patient" requires the development of training devices faithful to reality.

The rheumatology department of the Strasbourg University Hospital has been working for 3 years, in collaboration with the Strasbourg start-up InSimo, on the development of an LP simulator. This simulator is original because it allows the feeling by pressure of the passage of the various structures, and in particular the yellow ligament. This sensation is made possible by a haptic force feedback device.

Conditions

  • Lumbar Puncture

Interventions

OTHER

performing lumbar punctures by students with standard training

performance of the puncture by the student have been previously trained with standard training

OTHER

training students augmented reality simulator

performance of the puncture by the student have been previously trained using the augmented reality simulator

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-02
Primary Completion
2023-11-15
Completion
2023-11-15

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT05269238 on ClinicalTrials.gov