Indigenously Developed Ultrasound Phantom Model (IDUP)

Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Simulation Training

Treatments: Other: indigenously developed ultrasound phantom (IDUP)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04527120

03/19/IEC/JMMC&RI

Details and patient eligibility

About

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?

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Model A first and then B

Other group

Description:

Model A and B would be randomly allotted to commercial model and IDUP. Intervention limb would involve performing on sequentially on the commercial and IDUP, following which a feed back of the candidates would be recorded about their performance on the same with respect to sonological appearance, tactile feedback, artefacts and ease of performing the procedure. Set time points (time to needle tip visualisation, time to puncture) and no of attempts before successful cannulation would be recorded by an assessor on a pre set proforma.

Treatment:

Other: indigenously developed ultrasound phantom (IDUP)

Model B first and then A

Other group

Description:

Model A and B would be randomly allotted to commercial model and IDUP. Intervention limb would involve performing on sequentially on the commercial and IDUP, following which a feed back of the candidates would be recorded about their performance on the same with respect to sonological appearance, tactile feedback, artefacts and ease of performing the procedure. Set time points (time to needle tip visualisation, time to puncture) and no of attempts before successful cannulation would be recorded by an assessor on a pre set proforma.

Treatment:

Other: indigenously developed ultrasound phantom (IDUP)