George Ntoumenopoulos1, Hwee Kuan Ong2, Hong Chuen Toh3, Rafael Pulido Saclolo4, Wen Duu Sewa5. 1. University of Technology Sydney St Vincent's Hospital Sydney Sydney 2007 Australia. 2. Singapore General Hospital Singapore Institute of Technology Singapore 169608 Singapore. 3. Acute and Emergency Care Centre Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Singapore 768828 Singapore. 4. Department of Emergency Medicine Tan Tock Seng Hospital Singapore 308433 Singapore. 5. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Singapore General Hospital Singapore 169608 Singapore.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION/ PURPOSE: Diagnostic thoracic ultrasound is increasingly being used by non-physicians; hence, we evaluated a curriculum for acute care physiotherapists in critical care. METHODS: The one-day course included didactic lectures combined with expert-led hands-on training. Participants undertook pre- and post-course knowledge questionnaire covering key ultrasound findings for normal lungs, pleural and pulmonary pathologies. Course participants who worked at the institution where the course was undertaken undertook a practical examination. We also did a 4- to 6-week follow-up survey of participants. The pretest and post-test questionnaire and survey results were reported using descriptive statistics (means SD or median and IQR). RESULTS: A total of 12 acute care physiotherapists undertook the training and questionnaire scores (mean percentage, SD, 95% CI) increased from 73.3 ± 15.5% (63.4-83.2) before the training to 86.3 ± 5.5% (82.8-89.8) after training. DISCUSSION: This diagnostic thoracic ultrasound training course resulted in improvements of diagnostic thoracic ultrasound knowledge including lung and pleural pathology image recognition skills in a small group of acute care physiotherapists with nil previous diagnostic thoracic ultrasound skills. Two-thirds of the participants who responded to the survey undertook only one to three scans in clinical practice, and the most frequent barrier to clinical use of diagnostic thoracic ultrasound was time constraints. CONCLUSION: Further investigation of such a diagnostic thoracic ultrasound training programme on knowledge and skills retention and image acquisition and interpretation in real life clinical practice in a larger group of acute care physiotherapists is warranted.
INTRODUCTION/ PURPOSE: Diagnostic thoracic ultrasound is increasingly being used by non-physicians; hence, we evaluated a curriculum for acute care physiotherapists in critical care. METHODS: The one-day course included didactic lectures combined with expert-led hands-on training. Participants undertook pre- and post-course knowledge questionnaire covering key ultrasound findings for normal lungs, pleural and pulmonary pathologies. Course participants who worked at the institution where the course was undertaken undertook a practical examination. We also did a 4- to 6-week follow-up survey of participants. The pretest and post-test questionnaire and survey results were reported using descriptive statistics (means SD or median and IQR). RESULTS: A total of 12 acute care physiotherapists undertook the training and questionnaire scores (mean percentage, SD, 95% CI) increased from 73.3 ± 15.5% (63.4-83.2) before the training to 86.3 ± 5.5% (82.8-89.8) after training. DISCUSSION: This diagnostic thoracic ultrasound training course resulted in improvements of diagnostic thoracic ultrasound knowledge including lung and pleural pathology image recognition skills in a small group of acute care physiotherapists with nil previous diagnostic thoracic ultrasound skills. Two-thirds of the participants who responded to the survey undertook only one to three scans in clinical practice, and the most frequent barrier to clinical use of diagnostic thoracic ultrasound was time constraints. CONCLUSION: Further investigation of such a diagnostic thoracic ultrasound training programme on knowledge and skills retention and image acquisition and interpretation in real life clinical practice in a larger group of acute care physiotherapists is warranted.
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