• Kelsey A Miller, Michael C Monuteaux, Saima Aftab, Alex Lynn, Debra Hillier, and Joshua Nagler.
• K.A. Miller is a fellow, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. M.C. Monuteaux is senior epidemiologist and biostatistician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. S. Aftab is director, Fetal Care Center, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida. A. Lynn is a medical student, Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Glendale, Arizona. D. Hillier is staff physician, Intermediate Care Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. J. Nagler is associate physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, and director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Acad Med. 2018 Dec 1; 93 (12): 1858-1864.

PurposePediatric advanced airway management is a low-frequency but critical procedure, making it challenging for trainees to learn. This study examined the impact of a curriculum integrating prerecorded videos of patient endotracheal intubations on performance related to simulated pediatric intubation.MethodThe authors conducted a randomized controlled educational trial for pediatric residents between January 2015 and June 2016 at Boston Children's Hospital. Investigators collecting data were blinded to the intervention. The control group received a standard didactic curriculum including still images, followed by simulation on airway trainers. The intervention group received a video-enhanced didactic curriculum including deidentified intubation clips recorded using a videolaryngoscope, followed by simulation. The study assessed intubation skills on simulated infant and pediatric airway scenarios of varying difficulty immediately after instruction and at three months.ResultsForty-nine trainees completed the curriculum: 23 received the video-enhanced curriculum and 26 received the standard curriculum. Median time to successful intubation was 18.5 and 22 seconds in the video-enhanced and standard groups, respectively. Controlling for mannequin age and difficulty, residents receiving the video-enhanced curriculum successfully intubated faster (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval]: 1.65 [1.25, 2.19]). Video-enhanced curriculum participants also demonstrated decreased odds of requiring multiple attempts and of esophageal intubation. At three-month follow-up, residents who received the video-enhanced curriculum remained faster at intubation (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval]: 1.93 [1.23, 3.02]).ConclusionsIntegrating videos of patient intubations into an airway management curriculum improved participating pediatric residents' intubation performance on airway trainers with sustained improvement at three months.

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