TY - JOUR T1 - Training on a virtual reality cricothyroidotomy simulator improves skills and transfers to a simulated procedure JF - Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open JO - Trauma Surg Acute Care Open DO - 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000826 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - e000826 AU - Ganesh Sankaranarayanan AU - Coleman A Odlozil AU - Salman S Hasan AU - Rehma Shabbir AU - Di Qi AU - Melih Turkseven AU - Suvranu De AU - Geoffrey Funk AU - Rebecca J Weddle Y1 - 2022/03/01 UR - http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/7/1/e000826.abstract N2 - Objective The virtual airway skills trainer (VAST) is a virtual reality simulator for training in cricothyroidotomy (CCT). The goal of the study is to test the effectiveness of training and transfer of skills of the VAST-CCT.Methods Two groups, control (no training) and simulation (2 weeks of proficiency-based training), participated in this study. Subjects in the control condition did not receive any training on the task whereas those in the simulation received a proficiency-based training on the task during a period of 2 weeks. Two weeks post-training, both groups performed CCT on the TraumaMan to demonstrate the transfer of skills.Results A total of (n=20) subjects participated in the study. The simulation group performed better than the control group at both the post-test (p<0.001) and retention test (p<0.001) on the simulator. The cumulative sum analysis showed that all subjects in the simulation group reached proficiency with acceptable failure rate within the 2 weeks of training. On the transfer test, the simulation group performed better on skin cut (p<0.001), intubation (p<0.001) and total score (p<0.001) than the control group.Conclusions The VAST-CCT is effective in training and skills transfer for the CCT procedure.Level of evidence Not applicable. Simulator validation study.Data are available upon reasonable request. Data will be made available upon request. ER -