Clinical trial NCT05857787: Validation of Educational Effect of Nerve Tracking Function Mounted on the Ultrasound
Official title: Validation of Educational Effect of Nerve Tracking Function Mounted on the Ultrasound: A Randomized Comparative Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Lead sponsor: Seoul National University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-05-15
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 85
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to find out whether the nerve track function is helpful in distinguishing appropriate anatomical structures for beginners using ultrasound.

Detailed description: 2nd, 3rd, 4th year medical school students and 1st, 2nd, 3rd year residents of anesthesiology who voluntarily signed a consent form for participation in the study are investigated for the history of previous ultrasound use and other details of the subjects before the lecture and ultrasound practice.

Well-trained pain physicians provides anatomical education on the brachial plexus supraclavicular level and the median nerve at wrist level. At this time, an ultrasound cross-sectional image of the corresponding nerve is provided. After anatomical education, research subjects (students and residents) are randomly assigned to group A or B after receiving basic education in a 1:1 ratio.

Subjects receive training for about 10 minutes to find the brachial plexus (supraclavicular level) and median nerve (carpal tunnel level) through a live demo method that directly uses ultrasound. At this time, group A receives training in the live demo method with the nerve track function, and group B receives training in the live demo method without the nerve track function.

After a 5-minute intermission, both groups A and B were asked to find the brachial plexux and median nerve without the nerve track function in the instructor's left upper limb. Each nerve is to be found within 5 minutes, and it is considered a failure after 5 minutes.

After activating the nerve track function in both groups without intermission, the educator shows the nerves corresponding to the brachial plexus at supracalvicualr level and median nerve at wrist level in the left upper limb, and conducts the same 5-minute training on finding them.

After a 5-minute intermission, with the nerve track function turned off again, ask the educator to find the brachial plexus and median nerve in the right arm.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 2nd, 3rd, 4th year students at Seoul National University College of Medicine
* 1st, 2nd, 3rd year residents of anesthesiology at Seoul National University Hospital
* Those who voluntarily consented

Exclusion Criteria:

* Those who have previously identified the brachial plexus at supraclavicular level and median nerve at wrist level using ultrasound

Primary outcomes:
measure: Success rate (%) of accurately locating a nerve in the first round in groups A and B
timeFrame: 5 minutes after starting to find the nerve using ultrasound
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Success rate (%) of accurately locating a nerve in the second round in groups A and B
timeFrame: 5 minutes after starting to find the nerve using ultrasound
measure: Subjects' assessment of the educational effect of the nerve track function
timeFrame: 5 minutes after the second round of finding nerves
measure: Medical students and anesthesiology residents success rate (%)
timeFrame: 5 minutes after starting to find the nerve using ultrasound at first round and second round
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seoul
country: Korea, Republic of
facility: Seoul National University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Seoul National University Hospital
name: Jee Youn Moon, MD, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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