Point-of-care Ultrasound Teledidactic Teaching for Prehospital Emergency Personnel

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two methods of teaching emergency medical service (EMS) providers how to use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to quickly assess critical conditions like internal bleedings. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Is teledidactic training as effective as face-to-face training in teaching POCUS skills? What are the participants' experiences, cognitive load, and feedback regarding these training methods? Researchers will compare remote, online hands-on training (teledidactic training) to traditional, face-to-face hands-on training (in-person training) to see if remote training is equally effective.

Participants will:

Be EMS providers from Austria and Hungary, aged 18 years or older, with no extensive prior experience in POCUS.

Be randomly assigned to either the tele-didactic or in-person training group (50 participants per group).

Undergo training sessions designed to teach POCUS skills and provide feedback on their learning experience.

This study is part of the European Union-funded Digi4Care project, which aims to promote digitalization in healthcare. It is significant because, if remote training proves effective, it could provide high-quality education to EMS providers in rural or underserved areas, ensuring they have the necessary skills to assess and respond to critical conditions.

Conditions

• eFast
• Fate
• Education, Medical
• Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Interventions

OTHER

Teledidactic Training

Participants will take part in a tele-didactic training session, matching the duration of the control group's training. This workshop will cover the same content as the control group's session, but instead of in-person instruction, teaching experts will deliver the training remotely using telemedicine software.

OTHER

In-Person Hands-on Training

Participants will attend a face-to-face, hands-on workshop led by experts to learn the eFAST protocol.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Semmelweis University Budapest

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety

  collaborator OTHER

• Medical University of Vienna

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-02-23

Primary Completion

2025-05-08

Completion

2025-05-08

Countries

• Austria

Study Locations