NCT00555308

Emergency Department Targeted Ultrasound for the Detection of Hydronephrosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen's University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

An Emergency Department Targeted Ultrasound (EDTU) is an ultrasound examination performed by an emergency department physician, instead of a radiologist or ultrasound technician. EDTU is intended to be a readily assessable test performed at the bedside, to quickly and safely determine the presence of a disease state; it answers a binary question, as compared to formal ultrasound imaging which seeks to determine the cause of a patient's symptoms. The objective of this study is to determine the accuracy of EDTU in patients suspected of renal colic. By demonstrating excellent test characteristics, these investigators hope that this research will be used to incorporate EDTU for hydronephrosis into standard emergency care in Canada.

Conditions

• Urolithiasis
• Ultrasonography
• Hydronephrosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	emergency department targeted ultrasound imaging	bedside ultrasound performed by emergency physician to identify hydronephrosis

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2007-11-08
• Last updated: 2009-07-22

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Canada