FAST Examination During Emergency Practice

Trauma Clinical Trial

— FAST  

Official title:

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice About Focused Assessment With Sonography in Trauma Among Paramedics. Randomized Crossover Manikin Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02289885
• Other study ID #: FAST/2014/02
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 7, 2014
• Last updated: November 10, 2014
• Start date: November 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: November 2014
• Source: International Institute of Rescue Research and Education
• Contact: Lukasz Szarpak
• Phone: +48500186225
• Email: lukasz.szarpak[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Poland: Ministry of Science and Higher Education
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study evaluates the knowledge, attitude and practice about Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma among emergency medicine practitioners in Poland.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Paramedics currently practicing in a Polish emergency department units and emergency medical services

• Age = 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to participate in all aspects of the study prior to study begin

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Trauma
• Ultrasonography

Intervention

Device:
• SonoScape
Ultrasonography device

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Poland	International Institute of Rescue Research and Education	Warsaw

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
International Institute of Rescue Research and Education

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Poland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Tests of Knowledge of the FAST Examination	knowledge-based measures used to evaluate participants' knowledge of FAST-examination-related concepts (Survey)	1 day	No
Secondary	FAST Performance Test	The performance test required participants to conduct a FAST examination on two model patients (one normal, one ascites positive). No help or feedback was given to the participants.	1 day	No
Secondary	Window acquisition time	Identification of FAST Window Quadrants and Diagnostic Interpretation of FAST Windows.; The window acquisition time was measured with a stopwatch and represented the period between first contact of the probe with the model patient's body and when the participant said "stop" to indicate an adequate window or the participant's judgment that he or she could not acquire the window.	1 day	No
Secondary	Window quality	For each acquired window, an expert evaluated the quality of the window. The window was rated as "excellent, fair, poor, or other." "Other" captured situations where the window acquired was nondiagnostic. Window quality was dichotomized into two categories, "excellent or not excellent," and subsequent analyses examined the number of participants that acquired "excellent" windows by quadrant (perihepatic space (also called Morison's pouch or the hepatorenal recess), perisplenic space, pericardium, and the pelvis and suprapubic quadrant) and patient type (normal, positive).	1 day	No
Secondary	Diagnostic accuracy	For each acquired window, the participant rendered a diagnosis of that window. An expert evaluated the quality of the diagnosis. The diagnosis was rated as "correct, incorrect, or other." "Other" captured situations where the window acquired was nondiagnostic. For analysis purposes, diagnostic accuracy was dichotomized into two categories, "correct or not correct," and subsequent analyses examined the number of participants that interpreted the window correctly by quadrant (perihepatic space (also called Morison's pouch or the hepatorenal recess), perisplenic space, pericardium, and the pelvis and suprapubic quadrant) and patient type (normal, positive).	1 day	No