| dc.description.abstract | Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is used by clinicians to answer specific questions to expedite
emergency care until a comprehensive assessment can be done. Minimal image set in POCUS is
considered the most critical feature and this study aims to assess the knowledge required for
minimum image set for EFAST and lung ultrasound among Emergency Medicine (EM) trainees.
This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted among 97 Specialist Trainees in Emergency
Medicine, at the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), Sri Lanka. Data was collected using
a self-administered online questionnaire via a set of multiple-choice questions at the PGIM and
was analyzed by a descriptive and analytical statistical method using IBM SPSS Version 20
software. Ethical approval was granted by the ethical review committee of National Hospital Sri
Lanka. Most of the participants had more than a year of experience in POCUS and had followed
reputed ultrasound programmes such as WINFOCUS (62.8%). Furthermore,15.3% of the
participants had international accreditation and 37.1% knew minimal image concepts. However,
only 25% of the trainees had a good knowledge of minimal image concepts and 83.3% of them
had followed a reputed programme. The study concluded that there is no clear relationship
between the level of training and the knowledge, nevertheless, the type of reputed courses
(WINFOCUS) and level of knowledge have a visible relationship. Overall, there is poor knowledge
among the participants regarding a protocolized approach to POCUS. | en_US |
