Observational studyCritical care medicine2016
Focused Critical Care Echocardiography: Development and Evaluation of an Image Acquisition Assessment Tool.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Self-Learning Videos in Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography Training.The clinical teacher · 2025Trial
- Assessment methods in graduate medical education in critical care: a scoping review.BMC medical education · 2026Article
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- Automated echocardiography view classification and quality assessment with recognition of unknown views.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2024Article
- A Tool to Assess Competence in Critical Care Ultrasound Based on Entrustable Professional Activities.ATS scholar · 2023Article
- Development of a multisystem point of care ultrasound skills assessment checklist.The ultrasound journal · 2022Article
- Competence of anesthesiology residents following a longitudinal point-of-care ultrasound curriculum.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2022Observational
- Automated estimation of echocardiogram image quality in hospitalized patients.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Article
- Ensuring competency in focused cardiac ultrasound: a systematic review of training programs.Journal of intensive care · 2020Review
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- Cardiac point-of-care to cart-based ultrasound translation using constrained CycleGAN.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2020Article
- Student Perceptions of Instructional Ultrasound Videos as Preparation for a Practical Assessment.Ultrasound international open · 2019Article
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- Prospective evaluation of cardiac ultrasound performance by general internal medicine physicians during a 6-month faculty development curriculum.Critical ultrasound journal · 2018Article
- Teaching to the test: developing an assessment tool for novice echocardiographers.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesLittle attention has been placed on assessment tools to evaluate image acquisition quality for focused critical care echocardiography. We designed a novel assessment tool to objectively evaluate the image acquisition skills of critical care trainees learning focused critical care echocardiography and examined the tool for evidence of validity.
designProspective observational study.
settingMedical-surgical ICUs at a tertiary care teaching hospital. SUBJECTS: Trainees in our critical care medicine fellowship program.
interventionsSix trainees completed a focused critical care echocardiography training curriculum followed by performing 20 transthoracic echocardiograms on patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation. At three assessment intervals (the 1st and 2nd examinations, 10th and 11th examinations, and 19th and 20th examinations), echocardiograms performed by trainees were compared with those of critical care physicians certified in echocardiography and scored according to the focused critical care echocardiography assessment tool. The primary outcome was an efficiency score (overall assessment tool score divided by examination time). Differences in mean efficiency scores between echocardiographers of differing skill levels and changes in trainees' mean efficiency scores with increasing focused critical care echocardiography experience were compared by using t tests. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsOn the initial assessment, mean efficiency scores (SD) for trainees and experienced physicians were 1.55 (0.95) versus 2.78 (1.38), respectively (p = 0.02), and for the second and third assessments, the corresponding efficiency ratings for trainees and experienced physicians were 2.48 (0.97) versus 4.55 (1.32) (p < 0.01) and 2.61 (1.37) versus 4.17 (2.12) (p = 0.04), respectively.
conclusionsTrainees' efficiency in focused critical care echocardiography image acquisition improved quickly in the first 10 studies, yet, it could not match with the performance of experienced physicians after 20 focused critical care echocardiography studies. The focused critical care echocardiography assessment tool demonstrated evidence of validity and could discern changes in trainees' image acquisition performance with increasing experience.
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