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Lung ultrasound training: curriculum implementation and learning trajectory among respiratory therapists

Overview of attention for article published in Intensive Care Medicine, October 2015
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Title
Lung ultrasound training: curriculum implementation and learning trajectory among respiratory therapists
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Intensive Care Medicine, October 2015
DOI 10.1007/s00134-015-4102-9
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K. C. See, V. Ong, S. H. Wong, R. Leanda, J. Santos, J. Taculod, J. Phua, C. M. Teoh

Abstract

Guidelines recommend teaching of lung ultrasound for critical care, though little information exists on how much training is required for independent practice, especially for non-physician trainees. We thus aimed to elucidate a threshold number of cases above which competency for independent practice may be attained for respiratory therapists (RTs). We conducted a prospective audit of lung ultrasound training between July 2014 and April 2015 in our 20-bed medical intensive care unit. Following theoretical instruction and self-learning, trainees acquired images from 12 lung zones under direct supervision and classified images into six patterns. Assistance during image acquisition and correct interpretation of ultrasound images were recorded. Eleven ultrasound-naïve RTs scanned an average of 15 patients each (170 patients in total). Among supervisor-adjudicated lung ultrasound findings, 35.5 % were abnormal. Blinded verification of the adjudicated findings was done for the first 92 patients (1104 images), with an agreement of 95.4 %. As RTs scanned more patients, there was a significant decrease in the proportion of images requiring supervisor assistance (Cuzick's P < 0.001), and a significant increase in the proportion of correctly identified images (Cuzick's P = 0.008). After trainees performed at least ten scans, less than 2 % of images required assistance with acquisition and less than 5 % were wrongly interpreted. Our training method allowed RTs to independently perform lung ultrasound after at least ten directly supervised scans. Given that RTs are likely to have less ultrasound knowledge and less clinical know-how compared to physicians, we believe that the same threshold number of scans may be also safely applied to the latter.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 141 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 29 20%
Researcher 18 13%
Student > Master 13 9%
Student > Postgraduate 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Other 32 22%
Unknown 29 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 87 60%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Psychology 3 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 1%
Other 5 3%
Unknown 38 26%
Attention Score in Context

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#3,898,222
of 22,856,968 outputs
Outputs from Intensive Care Medicine
#2,056
of 4,988 outputs
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#53,007
of 280,096 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Intensive Care Medicine
#15
of 64 outputs
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