Clinical trials: Ultrasound Training
Educational Problems
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) Low-Contact Curriculum Using Near-Peer Training and Remote Supervision
Ultrasonography is a non-invasive, minimal-radiation tool for clinical diagnosis. Relevant clinical protocols have been developed.
- Trial name
- NCT06777641
- Testing
- remote supervision
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 69 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Clinical Trial Center
Other Acute Illnesses Presenting to the Hospital, Heart Failure
Evaluation of Implementation of a National Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training Program
This VA QUERI Partnered Evaluation Initiative will evaluate the impact of an immersive Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training Course on provider skill acquisition and retention; the frequency of POCUS use by trained providers…
- Conditions
- Other Acute Illnesses Presenting to the Hospital, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Deep Venous Thrombosis
- Trial name
- NCT03296280
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 116 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Point-of-care Ultrasound, Simulation Training
Ultrasound Simulation Case-based Workshop Implementation and Impact Assessment
This study is a prospective cohort study implementing a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) simulation case-based workshop in emergency (EM) physicians at different training levels as an educational and competency-based assessment…
- Conditions
- Point-of-care Ultrasound, Simulation Training, Medical Education in Emergency Ultrasound
- Trial name
- US Sim cases (NCT06960837)
- Testing
- ultrasound simulation training case-based workshop during resident sim days
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Video-Based Versus Bedside eFAST Training in Final-Year Medical Students
This study compared two methods of teaching the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) examination to final-year medical students.
- Conditions
- Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), eFast
- Trial name
- NCT07790497
- Testing
- Standardized Video-Based eFAST Training, Instructor-Led Bedside eFAST Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gorkem Alper Solakoglu
Athletes
Musculotendinous Adaptations in High and Low- Performance Triathletes
This study aims to investigate the musculotendinous adaptations in the Achilles tendon and the muscles composing the triceps surae induced by triathlon training and competitions in high-performance and low-performance athletes.
- Trial name
- MAT (NCT06318728)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Brasilia
Learning
Comparison of Web- Versus Classroom-based Basic Ultrasound and Extended Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (EFAST) Training in Two European Hospitals
Study Objective: Training physicians in new skills via classroom-based teaching has inherent costs and time constraints. We sought to evaluate whether web-based didactics result in similar knowledge improvement and retention of…
- Trial name
- NCT01040767
- Testing
- Didactic training in basic ultrasound and the EFAST
- Where
- 2 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Learning Outcome, Training Efficiency
The Effects of Virtual Reality Ultrasound Training in Pairs Compared to Training Alone
Virtual Reality (VR) simulation has enabled high-quality, safe and efficient training of medical health care providers. However, training costs are considerable and may be optimized using interventions to improve learning.
- Trial name
- NCT01703975
- Testing
- Training in pairs (Dyad training)
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Urinary Incontinence
Pilot Study - Patient Education and Pelvic Strength Exercises in Elderly Women With Incontinence.
It will be investigate if women with a diaper grant in Aalborg Municipality can reduce diaper size and thus costs for diapers in the municipality through meetings with a incontinence nurse and pelvic floor exercises.
- Trial name
- NCT03862326
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 46 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College of Northern Denmark
Core Muscle Weakness, Postural Control Deficit
"CORE Training for Musculoskeletal Health: A Study on Adaptive Exercise Protocols"
This study aims to evaluate the effects of an adaptive core training protocol that integrates core stability, core strength, and high-intensity core power exercises on muscle activation, hypertrophy, balance, and quality of life.
- Conditions
- Core Muscle Weakness, Postural Control Deficit, Trunk Stability Impairment, Functional Performance Limitation
- Trial name
- RCT-EMG-US-QoL (NCT07025395)
- Testing
- - Core Training Protocol, Control Group Core Routine
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ioannis Tsartsapakis
Continuity of Care
The Effects of Simulation-based Ultrasound Training on Continuity of Care in Managing Pre-mature Onset of Labor
Simulation-based training lead to improvements in learning compared to no intervention but little is known of the effects on organizational improvements that are relevant to patient care.
- Trial name
- NCT02001467
- Testing
- Simulation-based training
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Anesthesia
Gaze Training on Task Performance Regional Anaesthesia
Regional anaesthesia is the performance of spinal, epidural or peripheral nerve blocks to allow patients to undergo surgery awake and to provide post-operative pain relief.
- Trial name
- NCT04426227
- Testing
- Gaze training, Discovery learning
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Women's Health
Helping Adults Perform Transvaginal Exams Via Coaching at Home
To train ultrasound technologists (equivalently called sonographers) in remote ultrasound guidance. To capture imaging of the gynecologic organs visible on home ultrasound and pertinent to clinical care, specifically the ovaries…
- Trial name
- HATCH (NCT05282524)
- Testing
- Transvaginal ultrasound performed by a woman herself (with remote healthcare professional supervision)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 67 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Turtle Health, Inc.
Sarcopenia
Effects of Graded Protein Intake on Body Composition in Older Adults
This clinical trial is intended to evaluate the effects of protein intake graded to resistance training volume over a 10-week period on macroscopic skeletal muscle adaptations and body composition.
- Trial name
- GPI (NCT04845282)
- Testing
- Graded Protein plus Resistance Training, RDA Protein plus Resistance Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University
Simulation Training
Indigenously Developed Ultrasound Phantom Model
Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is used ever more increasingly across the emergency medicine departments in India. Guided procedures like nerve blocks, vascular access, abscess drainage and foreign body exploration are done more…
- Trial name
- IDUP (NCT04527120)
- Testing
- indigenously developed ultrasound phantom (IDUP)
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute
Medical Education
Training for Transfer by Contextual Variation
The goal of this randomized study is to investigate the effect of introducing contextual variation on transfer when learning a technical skill in a group of medical students.
- Trial name
- NCT05834374
- Testing
- Contextual variation, Maximum affordances
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Simulated - Based Training
Simulated-based Program for Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Anesthesia Residents
The goal of this Simulated Based Program for Peripheral Nerve Blocks is build learning curves in anesthesia residents. The research questions are: How behave the learning curves in a simulate based training program in peripheral…
- Trial name
- NCT06081790
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Exercise Training, Sport
Eccentric Training Effects on Hamstrings Structure, Strength, and Sprint Performance
The overall goal of this study is to investigate the effects of a 6-week training program between two hamstring exercises-the Romanian deadlift (RDL) and the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE)-on hamstring strain injury risk factors…
- Conditions
- Exercise Training, Sport, Running, Ultrasound Imaging
- Trial name
- NCT05455346
- Testing
- Ultrasound imaging, Hamstring Eccentric Strength Testing, Maximal 60 m Sprint
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Healthy
Dynamic Stretching Training and Muscle Tendon Unit
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a 5-week dynamic stretching exercise training on muscle-tendon unit of gastrocnemius muscle.
- Trial name
- NCT02509676
- Testing
- stretching exercise
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University
Breast Neoplasms
Delphinus SoftVue Prospective Case Collection - ARM 1
The SoftVue™ is a whole breast ultrasound system with an automated scanning curvilinear ring-array transducer that employs UST. It is currently cleared under FDA 510(k) K123209 and K142517 for use as both a B-mode ultrasonic…
- Trial name
- SV PCC ARM1 (NCT03257839)
- Testing
- Routine Full-Field Digital Mammography, Routine Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound
- Where
- 10 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 7,409 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc.
Ovarian Cysts
Transvaginal Ultrasound Training for Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents
Obstetrics and gynecology residents are deemed to be proficient in transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) upon graduation from an accredited program, although TVUS education in residency is not standardized.
- Trial name
- NCT02890914
- Testing
- Transvaginal Ultrasound Educational DVD
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 57 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Thomas Jefferson University