Emergencies
Conditions
Brief summary
In patients who visit an emergency room with ocular symptoms, point-of-care ultrasound can quickly identify several emergency diseases. While training of eye ultrasound skills is useful for emergency physicians, hands-on education is risky in pandemic situation such as coronavirus disease 19 (COVID19). As a solution to this, non-face-to-face education via online has been on the rise. The investigators hypothesized that even an online education is enough to perform basic eye ultrasound by emergency physician.
Detailed description
Since the eye is an superficial organ, it has excellent access to ultrasound. Also, the eye has a liquid-filled structure (vitreous body), it is suitable for obtaining some important findings with bedside ultrasound. In patients who visit an emergency room with ocular symptoms, point-of-care ultrasound can quickly identify several emergency diseases. While training of eye ultrasound skills is useful for emergency physicians, hands-on education is risky in pandemic situation such as COVID19. As a solution to this, non-face-to-face education via online has been on the rise. The investigators hypothesized that even an online education is enough to perform basic eye ultrasound by emergency physician.
Interventions
OTHERonline group
In terms of teaching ultrasound, video lectures will be conducted rather than hands-on, which is the traditional method.
Sponsors
Samsung Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
for doctors: * Those who have received basic ultrasound education but have not received ocular ultrasound education * Residents and interns working in the emergency room * Those who voluntarily agree to participate in the research through the recruitment announcement Inclusion Criteria for standard patients: * Adults over 18 years of age without eye-related symptoms * Those who do not have unusual findings in the eye when scanning by ultrasound * Those who voluntarily agree to participate in the research through the recruitment announcement
Exclusion criteria
for standard patients: * Those with a history of ophthalmic diseases * Those who have a history of ophthalmic surgery such as lens implantation
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| scan score | through study completion, an average of 1 year | We make our own guideline to evaluate ocular ultrasound scans. The ocular ultrasound images performed participants are evaluated according to the guideline. We compare the scores of the hands-on group and the online group to see if there is a significant difference between the two groups. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) | through study completion, an average of 1 year | Two ultrasound experts measure the standard patient's ONSD and use it as a reference value. The course of ocular ultrasound scanning involves measuring ONSD. We compare the measured ONSD of the hands-on group and the online group to see if there is a significant difference between the two groups. |
Countries
South Korea
Contacts
Primary ContactHee Yoon, MD., PhD.
Outcome results
None listed