NCT00886548

Echocardiographic Examination Performed by Nurses in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Echocardiographic Examination Performed by Nurses in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Is it Clinical Useful?

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is: * To study the clinical usefulness of nurse-performed ultrasound and echocardiographic examinations in a cardiac intensive care unit. * To study reproducibility of nurse-performed ultrasound and echocardiographic examinations in a cardiac intensive care unit. * To study which ultrasound measure that best correlate with the amount of pleural effusion.

Detailed description

For a period of 1 year patients in our cardiac intensive care unit will be recruited to nurse-drive ultrasound and echocardiographic examinations, after informed consent. Nurses underwent a training programme and their skills are approved by cardiologist. Our department does not always have a cardiologist on duty and indication for nurse-driven ultrasound examination is decided by the doctor responsible for the treatment, who not always are trained in echocardiography/ultrasound. We aim to study the described hypothesis.

Conditions

• Heart Failure
• Myocardial Infarction
• Pleural Effusion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ultrasound performed	Nurse-driven ultrasound performed

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-05-01
• Completion: 2010-05-01
• First posted: 2009-04-23
• Last updated: 2021-11-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway