NCT06548373

Assessment of Diagnostic Adequacy of AI-assisted Point-of-Care Echocardiography Among Anesthesiology Trainees

Assessment of Diagnostic Adequacy of Artificial Intelligence-assisted Point-of-Care Echocardiography Among Anesthesiology Trainees

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 16 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Loma Linda University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This pilot study serves to assess the diagnostic adequacy of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-guided point-of-care. Focused echocardiography examinations will be obtained by Anesthesiology trainees and assessed by an expert Cardiologist Echocardiographer. AI-guided echocardiography examinations will be compared to each other. AI-guided and non-AI-guided echocardiography examinations will also be compared.

Detailed description

This pilot study will involve Post-Graduate Year 2 Anesthesiology trainees on rotation in the Loma Linda University Medical Center operating rooms. Prior to participation, the trainees will give written informed consent to participate in the study and complete a baseline questionnaire to collect information regarding prior education in point-of-care echocardiography and the number of those examinations personally performed prior to study participation. All subjects will watch a brief training video about the AI guidance platform and participate in a hands on training session to familiarize themselves with AI guidance. When adult patients having anesthesia for procedures present with a clinical indication for peri-anesthesia point-of-care echocardiography examination, the assigned trainee will use the AI-guided system to obtain a standardized point-of-care focused cardiac examination. Subjects will be completing 11 total examinations, 10 using AI guidance, 1 without. Images of the examination will be assessed by an expert Cardiologist Echocardiographer that is blinded to the resident involved to measure diagnostic adequacy. A final non-AI-guided echocardiogram examination will be completed by the resident to measure and compare the time and adequacy of the images to the AI-guided examination images.

Conditions

• Anesthesia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Artificial Intelligence-assisted Point-of-Care Echocardiography	A wireless, AI-guided handheld ultrasound probe will be used on adult male patients who present with a clinical indication for peri-anesthesia point-of-care echocardiography examination. Residents will document personal interpretation of the completed point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) examination, important clinical findings, and assessment of whether obtaining a formal echocardiogram is warranted on an exam assessment form. The residents will complete 11 examinations with 10 specific scans each. The first 10 examinations will be AI-guided, and the final 11th examination will be done via a standard (non-AI guided) ultrasound system to gauge the resident's growth in point-of-care echocardiography skill.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-13
• Primary completion: 2026-04-28
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2024-08-12
• Last updated: 2026-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States