Point-of-care ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia in older ED patients with hip fractures: a study to test the feasibility of a training programme and time needed to complete nerve blocks by ED physicians after training.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Point-of-care ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia (POCUS-GRA) provides safe, rapid analgesia for older people with hip fractures but is rarely performed in the emergency department (ED). Self-perceived inadequate training and time to perform POCUS-GRA are the two most important barriers. Our objective is to assess the feasibility of a proposed multicentre, stepped-wedge cluster randomised clinical trial (RCT) to assess the impact of a knowledge-to-practice (KTP) intervention on delirium.

Design

Open-label feasibility study.

Setting

An academic tertiary care Canadian ED (annual visits 60 000).

Participants

Emergency physicians working at least one ED shift per week, excluding those already performing POCUS-GRA more than four times per year.

Inte

SUBMITTER: Lee JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258568 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature