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Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation: Enhancing Training Through Computer Simulation and Automated Evaluation

Award Number: R01HD091179
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Project Summary Neonatal endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a time-sensitive resuscitation procedure! essential for ventilation of newborns. It requires an unusually high level of skill due to the narrow airways, relatively large tongue, anterior glottic position, and low respiratory reserve of neonates (Bercic, Pocajt et al. 1978). Given the difficulty of the procedure and the high rate of complications in untrained hands, effective training is crucial. However, intubation success rates for pediatric residents are low under current resuscitation training programs and show little improvement between years 1-3 of residency (23-25%) (O'Donnell, Kamlin et al. 2006; Haubner, Barry et al. 2013). There is a pressing need to understand the factors that lead to poor training results and for innovative training modalities that can bridge the gap left by traditional training and thereby allow rapid skill acquisition. We hypothesize that current training and assessment methods suffer from 4 key weaknesses: (1) Poor realism: manikin and simulator-based training typically provide little variation in anatomy or difficulty level—key requirements for developing expertise (Dreyfus, Athanasiou et al. 1986)—and do not realistically model the look, feel, and motions of real tissue. (2) Subjective, highly variable, and resource-intensive assessment methods: training opportunities are limited by the availability of expert instructors. (3) Poor visualization: learners have poor knowledge about what went wrong and how to improve; they cannot see exactly what is going on inside the manikin or the patient and cannot directly monitor their actions relative to idealized, expert performance. (4) Assessment under artificially ideal conditions: assessments of ETI performance in classroom settings likely overestimate trainees' skill level because they do not mimic the stressors and distractions that are inherent in the real clinical environment. Technology-enhanced ETI simulators can resolve all of these key weaknesses: We have conducted preliminary work (Hahn, Li et al. 2016; Soghier, Li et al. 2014) on an augmented reality (AR (Azuma 1997)) manikin simulator driven by the motions of the trainee and physical manikin in real time that 1) provides a quantitative assessment of ETI technique and 2) allows the trainee to visualize the motion of the laryngoscope inside the manikin. The assessment score can provide feedback during the performance, as well as constitute part of the evaluation of the trainee's skill. Work under this proposal will build on this preliminary work. The specific aims are to: extend the current augmented reality (AR) manikin simulator to a virtual reality (VR) computer simulator and validate, extend and validate automated assessment and visualization algorithm for ETI, study training effectiveness by testing groups of pediatric residents across 3 years to quantify the effect of technology-enhanced methods relative to the current training regimen in terms of both intubation performance on simulators and clinical outcomes in patients, and assess performance under more realistic conditions.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = -$19 )
2025	2021	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)	1918 F ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	11/19/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$19
														Subtotal = -$19

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2021	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)	1918 F ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	6/1/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $314,927 )
2021	2021	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE	1918 F ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	6/15/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$314,927
														Subtotal = $314,927

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $319,874 )
2020	2020	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE	1918 F ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	6/15/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$319,874
														Subtotal = $319,874

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $318,886 )
2019	2019	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE	1918 F ST NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	6/27/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$318,886
														Subtotal = $318,886

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $317,404 )
2018	2018	THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	2121 I ST NW STE 601	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	6/25/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$317,404
														Subtotal = $317,404

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $313,412 )
2017	2017	THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	2121 I ST NW STE 601	WASHINGTON	DC	20052	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	8/21/2017	NEW	$313,412
														Subtotal = $313,412

Grand Total All Awards = $1,584,484

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Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation: Enhancing Training Through Computer Simulation and Automated Evaluation

Award Number: R01HD091179

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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