Indigenously Developed Ultrasound Phantom Model

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Simulation Training

• Registration Number: NCT04527120
• Lead Sponsor: Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute

Brief Summary

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is used ever more increasingly across the emergency medicine departments in India.

Guided procedures like nerve blocks, vascular access, abscess drainage and foreign body exploration are done more conveniently and efficiently utilising visualisation under ultra sonography.

Several training models are available commercially that aids in training the novice and expert in the field alike. The commercially available models are expensive and inaccessible for most, while the utility of POCUS in Emergency Department (ED) is on the rise. This has lead people to experiment with various models for training which ranges from basic gelatin moulds to ballistic gel. There are only a few studies that compare these with the commercially available products for educational purposes.

The home made models are cheaper and more easily procurable for training making it a relatively favourable choice in financially constrained situations. The investigators have been using a gelatine based training model to train their emergency medicine residents for many years. In this study they intend to assess whether their indigenously developed ultrasound phantom model is comparable to commercially available models for vascular access training.They also sought to assess the better preliminary teaching model for ultrasound guided vascular access: in-plane or out-of-plane approach?

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-06-30
• Study Completion: 2020-07-10
• Study First Submitted: 2020-07-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2020-08-26
• Status Verified: 2020-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 2020-10-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 48

Inclusion Criteria

• All the participants of the ultrasound training module who underwent the vascular access course were considered eligible to participate if they consented for the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants of the ultrasound training module who underwent the vascular access course not giving consent to participate or

Participant ultrasound training module who underwent the vascular access course withdrawing consent for using the data

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Comparative scoring of the two ultrasound phantom models	6 hours	Comparison of the two ultrasound model assessed on a five point Likert scale (1- worst score, 5- best score) in terms of resemblance, tactile feed back, artefacts and ease of use done at the end of the study.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Confidence in performing and teaching ultrasound guided vascular access using in plane approach	6 hours	Post workshop confidence level change in performing and teaching needle tracking and vascular access, with in plane approach, assessed on a five point Likert scale (1- least confident score, 5- most confident)
Confidence in performing and teaching ultrasound guided vascular access using out of plane approach	6 hours	Post workshop confidence level change in performing and teaching needle tracking and vascular access, with out of plane approach, assessed on a five point Likert scale (1- least confident score, 5- most confident)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute; 🇮🇳 Thrissur, Kerala, India