Think it, do it: mental rehearsal boosts emergency airway training
NCT ID NCT07625072
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether adding mental rehearsal (practicing steps in your mind) to standard training helps medical staff learn emergency cricothyroidotomy, a procedure to open a blocked airway. About 60 doctors, residents, and nurses will take part. Researchers will measure how well they perform the procedure and how fast they complete it.
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
-
Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
-
About 60 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
-
Jun 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
-
May 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
-
Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
-
18 years and older
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Medical personnel, including anesthesiology and intensive care specialists, residents, and nursing staff employed within Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Departments of the Medical University of Warsaw network. * No prior experience with the use of Mental Rehearsal techniques in performing emergency cricothyroidotomy. * Informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Medical personnel involved in the training process of study participants in emergency cricothyroidotomy, including instructors, assisting staff, and examiners. * Previous experience with the use of Mental Rehearsal techniques for acquiring competencies in performing emergency cricothyroidotomy. * Lack of informed consent.
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Airway management are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
-
The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
-
The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
-
A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
Medical University of Warsaw
Warsaw, 02-091, Poland
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.
- Muscle relaxant dose may hold key to better breathing tube alternative
- When cancer blocks the airway, doctors lack a playbook. experts aim to write one.
- The 3 AM intubation: does fatigue make airway management more dangerous?
- Ultrasound could flag tough airways before cancer surgery
- Which video laryngoscope works best when the neck Can't move?
- Can ultrasound predict airway device success in older adults?