Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Jon Quach, Joanne Tarasuik, Amanda Kvalsvig
Learning trajectories of children with special health care needs across the severity spectrum
Academic pediatrics
training perform prehospital extended focused assessment sonography trauma efast resulted improved outcomes trauma patients several countries result previous studies showed good accuracy despite minimal training however data diagnostic accuracy among untrained paramedic students course length middleincome countries scarce thailand current paramedic education include training prehospital ultrasounds present study aimed investigate diagnostic accuracy efast among ultrasoundnave paramedic students factors associated successful posttest training finalyear paramedic students attending 4year university program included study 2h didactic training session 1h handson workshop led experienced emergency physicians diagnostic indices efast interpretation obtained pretraining posttraining participants ultrasound image acquisition also evaluated individually mannequin model using standardized assessment tool total 47 paramedic students voluntarily enrolled underwent efast training participants 31 66 reported 1 year experience prehospital field four advanced emergency medical technicians becoming paramedic students sensitivity specificity positive predictive value negative predictive value training 857 95 ci 815893 816 95 ci 742876 916 95 ci 879944 71 95 ci 633778 respectively previous prehospital experience associated accuracy study demonstrated paramedic students thailand able achieve competency comparable medical professionals simulated environment total 3 h training course sufficient acquire efast skills