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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
32 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-02-01
2021-06-01
Brief Summary
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Trainees are at an increased risk of fatigue because they routinely, and are increasingly, working long hours, and exposed to excessive and high intensity workloads. With increasing numbers of patient consultations, there is a higher risk of making poorer quality clinical decisions (i.e. decision fatigue). The excessive workloads experienced by doctors can cause fatigue through the requirement for sustained attention over long periods of time, particularly when performing complex and mentally demanding tasks. Our main objective is to study the difference between the fatigued and non-fatigued state of anaesthetists and on their ability to perform an ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blockade task. We hypothesise that fatigue will result in a clinically significant reduction in the objective structured assessment scores of anaesthetists who are performing an ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blockade task compared to their scores when they are non-fatigued.
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
CROSSOVER
SCREENING
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Fatigue Group
The trial will recruit trainee anaesthetists of ST3 grade or higher who take part in a resident night-shift rota at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Participants will undergo baseline psychometric testing to measure baseline mood. There will be a series of questions to ascertain levels of fatigue. All participants will then be asked to perform a standardised ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blockade task using a high fidelity bench-top phantom model. Performance in this task will be independently assessed using a previously-validated scoring tool by two raters blinded to participant group allocation.
Fatigue
The intervention will be assessing the participant in a fatigued state compared to a non fatigued state
Non Fatigued group
The non fatigued group will be asked to perform the same series of questions and tasks after a night at home with no work duties or commitments
Fatigue
The intervention will be assessing the participant in a fatigued state compared to a non fatigued state
Interventions
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Fatigue
The intervention will be assessing the participant in a fatigued state compared to a non fatigued state
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
2. No previous experience of performing an ultrasound guided peripheral nerve block.
18 Years
65 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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David Hewson, MBBS
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University Hospitals of Nottingham
Central Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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20AN007
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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