NCT01818882

Diagnostic Value of Portable Ultrasound for Dyspneic Patient Support in the Emergency Department

Evaluation of the Diagnostic Value of Portable Ultrasound for Dyspneic Patient Support in the Emergency Department: a Randomized Study

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of our study is to compare the effects of two care strategies for dyspneic patients on the length of hospital stay: (1) standard care (=contextual analysis + conventional clinical chest radiography) versus (2) standard care + pleuropulmonary ultrasound.

Detailed description

The secondary objectives of this study are to assess the following for both arms: A-fatality rate, B-degree of concordance between the diagnosis orientation in the emergency department and final diagnosis determined by an expert committee using patient records one month later (blind evaluation by a panel of experts) C-clinical improvement between early emergency care and later care outside the emergency department (clinical parameters = blood gases and other biological parameters) D-imaging parameters.

Conditions

• Dyspnea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Standard care	Standard care for dyspneic patients including contextual analysis, conventional clinical exam and a chest X-Ray.
DEVICE	Vscan portable ultrasound device (GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI)	Standard care (as described for the other intervention) + pleuropulmonary ultrasound using the Vscan portable ultrasound device (GE Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI).

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2013-03-27
• Last updated: 2016-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France