AAGBI/Anaesthesia Departmental Project Grant
The successful applicant for the AAGBI/Anaesthesia Departmental Project Grant was:
Principal Applicant:
Professor RP Mahajan University Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Title of Project:
Validating Anaesthesia Simulation-based Error Research (the VASER study).
Amount
£24,256
Abstract:
In general, clinical studies of safety initiatives are legally, ethically and practically challenging. Our collaborators in New Zealand have developed a 'system' which is currently undergoing a clinical randomised controlled trial (RCT) for reducing drug errors during anaesthesia. They have also developed a high fidelity simulation 'model' which, by circumventing actual harm to patients, can be an extremely useful alternative to the clinical setting; however, it requires validation before it can be used as a research tool in future studies. We propose a two-centre study, in which 50 anaesthetists will conduct one simulator anaesthetic with the System and another with conventional methods. The simulator will utilize complex scenarios which will make high rates of error likely. By comparing the results of the ongoing clinical RCT with the proposed simulation-based RCT, we aim to validate the simulation-based research as real alternative to clinical studies, in particular in the area of drug errors.
First Year Progress Report from Prof R Mahajan (38 KB)
Abstract presented at the Anaesthetic Research Society meeting held in Nottingham, July 2010:
British Journal of Anaesthesia 105 (5): 707-30P (2010)
