Comparison of Hands-on Versus Online Learning About Ocular Ultrasound

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Emergencies

Treatments: Other: online group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04834700

2020-09-174

Details and patient eligibility

About

In patients who visit an emergency room with ocular symptoms, point-of-care ultrasound can quickly identify several emergency diseases. While training of eye ultrasound skills is useful for emergency physicians, hands-on education is risky in pandemic situation such as coronavirus disease 19 (COVID19). As a solution to this, non-face-to-face education via online has been on the rise. The investigators hypothesized that even an online education is enough to perform basic eye ultrasound by emergency physician.

Full description

Since the eye is an superficial organ, it has excellent access to ultrasound. Also, the eye has a liquid-filled structure (vitreous body), it is suitable for obtaining some important findings with bedside ultrasound. In patients who visit an emergency room with ocular symptoms, point-of-care ultrasound can quickly identify several emergency diseases. While training of eye ultrasound skills is useful for emergency physicians, hands-on education is risky in pandemic situation such as COVID19. As a solution to this, non-face-to-face education via online has been on the rise. The investigators hypothesized that even an online education is enough to perform basic eye ultrasound by emergency physician.

Enrollment: 32 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for doctors:

• Those who have received basic ultrasound education but have not received ocular ultrasound education
• Residents and interns working in the emergency room
• Those who voluntarily agree to participate in the research through the recruitment announcement

Inclusion Criteria for standard patients:

• Adults over 18 years of age without eye-related symptoms
• Those who do not have unusual findings in the eye when scanning by ultrasound
• Those who voluntarily agree to participate in the research through the recruitment announcement

Exclusion Criteria for standard patients:

• Those with a history of ophthalmic diseases
• Those who have a history of ophthalmic surgery such as lens implantation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

hands-on group

No Intervention group

Description:

The doctors who participated in the study will be educated ocular ultrasound scanning method by hands-on about 20 minutes, and perform ocular ultrasound scans on two standard patients.

online group

Other group

Description:

The doctors who participated in the study will be educated ocular ultrasound scanning method by online lecture about 20 minutes, and perform ocular ultrasound scans on two standard patients.

Treatment:

Other: online group