NCT04527120

Indigenously Developed Ultrasound Phantom Model

Indigenously Developed Ultrasound Phantom Model vs a Commercially Available Training Model: a Randomised Triple Blind Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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?

Conditions

• Simulation Training

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	indigenously developed ultrasound phantom (IDUP)	Ultrasound phantom model developed in the department of Emergency Medicine of Jubilee Mission Medical College, to train vascular access.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-07-10
• First posted: 2020-08-26
• Last updated: 2020-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India