Interdisciplinary approach to enhance trauma residents education of Extended‐Focused Assessment for Sonography in Trauma in the emergency department

Autor: Jessica Schleifer, April E. Mendoza, Sarah E. Frasure, Sally Graglia, Hamid Shokoohi, Rachel M. Haney, Andrew S. Liteplo, Calvin Huang
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ANZ Journal of Surgery. 90:1700-1704
ISSN: 1445-2197
1445-1433
Popis: BACKGROUND Despite the utilization of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) by trauma surgeons, formal POCUS requirements do not exist for general surgery residents. We sought to evaluate surgery resident comfort with performing and interpreting of Extended-Focused Assessment for Sonography in Trauma (E-FAST) scans after a brief educational session. METHODS A pre-survey, sent to PGY-2 and -3 surgical residents before their trauma rotation, evaluated comfort with eight components of the E-FAST. Residents were then required to watch a 15-min online video and attend a 1-h bedside training session moderated by emergency medicine ultrasound fellows during which residents practised E-FAST image acquisition and interpretation. After the rotation, residents completed a post-survey evaluating their comfort with the E-FAST. RESULTS All 27 residents rotating on the trauma service during the 2017-2018 academic year were eligible and, therefore, approached by the study team. Twenty-one (77.78%) residents completed the pre-survey, training and post-survey. Initially, only 52% (13/25) of residents reported feeling confident in performing the E-FAST. After the session, all (100%) reported feeling confident in their training in E-FAST. Self-reported mean comfort with each of the eight components of the E-FAST showed a statistically significant (P
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