Innovative Approach to the Specialist Workforce Crisis in Rural Indian Hospitals
Phase 1
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- all patients undergoing spinal anaesthesia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/08/015213
- Lead Sponsor
- Harvard Medical School
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients who are posted for spinal anaesthesia
Exclusion Criteria
Refusal of consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Completion of a non-inferiority study comparing medical officers to anesthesiologists on outcomes of rates of inadequate analgesia, up to 72 hour complications, and adherence to a safety checklists <br/ ><br>The time period depends on the number of patients needing surgical intervention under spinal anesthesia, who can enroll in the study.Timepoint: We anticipate that the requisite number of patients will be obtained by June 2019
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1)Development of a curriculum on spinal anesthesia specific to rural Indian hospitals medical officers <br/ ><br>2)A system for mannequin training/ simulation for medical officers <br/ ><br>Timepoint: It will be only after the non-inferiority trial is over that we can come to a conclusion regarding the non-inferiority of the trainees as compared to the anesthesiologists. If the trainees are found to be non-inferior, the training modules, the mannequin training and the simulation can be recommended as valid training material for other rural Indian Hospitals.