NCT04426227

Gaze Training on Task Performance Regional Anaesthesia

The Effect of Gaze Training on Task Performance and Skill Acquisition in Ultrasound-guided Regional Anaesthesia: a Partially Blinded Randomised Controlled Trial.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 43 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Nottingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Regional anaesthesia is the performance of spinal, epidural or peripheral nerve blocks to allow patients to undergo surgery awake and to provide post-operative pain relief. Anaesthetists inject local anaesthetic using specialist needles close to nerves to prevent transmission of pain. Hand-held ultrasound is often used by anaesthetists to direct these needles to the correct position i.e. close to, but not in the nerve itself. If the needle is not adequately seen using the hand-held ultrasound it may pierce the nerve causing permanent nerve damage and significant patient harm. Within the time and resource constraints of postgraduate medical training, it would be advantageous to optimise expertise acquisition of practical skills with a cheap, self-directed educational intervention. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine whether gaze training is associated with improved performance of an ultrasound-guided needle task. The investigators hypothesise that improved gaze control will translate to better technical performance of an ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia task.

Conditions

• Anesthesia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Gaze training	A training module in gaze training for peripheral nerve blockade
OTHER	Discovery learning	A phase of discovery learning guided by novice operators themselves

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2020-12-01
• First posted: 2020-06-11
• Last updated: 2020-06-11