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Focused Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound in Anesthesia/Critical Care - The Role of Self-directed Simulation-assisted Training Compared to a Traditional Supervised Approach

Education, Medical Clinical Trial

Official title:
Focused Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound in Anesthesia/Critical Care - The Role of Self-directed Simulation-assisted Training Compared to a Traditional Supervised Approach

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a self-directed and simulation-based lung ultrasound (LUS) and focused cardiac ultrasound (FCU) curriculum is efficacious on anesthesia trainees' image acquisition skills and diagnostic acumen. The investigators hypothesize that a self-directed and ultrasound-assisted LUS and FCU curriculum that includes video lectures, online teaching modules, an ultrasound simulator, and self-directed hands-on sessions on critically ill mechanically ventilated patients is effective in training novice ultrasonographers to obtain good quality images, to correctly interpret them, and to support clinical decision-making in critically ill patients.

Trainees will be randomized to fully supervised FCU hands-on sessions on healthy models and critically ill mechanically ventilated patients (control group - traditional apprenticeship model) or to a completely self-directed and simulation-based approach (intervention group).

To assess if this new self-directed and simulation-based ultrasound curriculum leads to adequate acquisition of competences (adequate image acquisition and interpretation) in novice ultrasonographers, trainees will have to perform a focused lung and cardiac assessment on a critically ill mechanically ventilated patient.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT01972698
Study type Interventional
Source St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
Contact Simon Abrahamson, MD
Email abrahamsons@smh.ca
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date November 2014
Completion date June 2018
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