Assessment of Diagnostic Adequacy of AI-assisted Point-of-Care Echocardiography Among Anesthesiology Trainees

This pilot study will involve Post-Graduate Year 2 Anesthesiology trainees on rotation in the Loma Linda University Medical Center operating rooms. Prior to participation, the trainees will give written informed consent to participate in the study and complete a baseline questionnaire to collect information regarding prior education in point-of-care echocardiography and the number of those examinations personally performed prior to study participation. All subjects will watch a brief training video about the AI guidance platform and participate in a hands on training session to familiarize themselves with AI guidance.

When adult patients having anesthesia for procedures present with a clinical indication for peri-anesthesia point-of-care echocardiography examination, the assigned trainee will use the AI-guided system to obtain a standardized point-of-care focused cardiac examination. Subjects will be completing 11 total examinations, 10 using AI guidance, 1 without.

Images of the examination will be assessed by an expert Cardiologist Echocardiographer that is blinded to the resident involved to measure diagnostic adequacy.

A final non-AI-guided echocardiogram examination will be completed by the resident to measure and compare the time and adequacy of the images to the AI-guided examination images.

Inclusion criteria

• Loma Linda University resident in Anesthesiology
• Post-Graduate Year 2

Exclusion criteria

• Residents not a part of a Loma Linda University residency program
• Residents not a part of an Anesthesiology residency program
• Loma Linda University Anesthesiology Post-Graduate Year 1 Residents
• Loma Linda University Anesthesiology Post-Graduate Year 3 Residents
• Loma Linda University Anesthesiology Post-Graduate Year 4 Residents