NCT02436317

Point of Care Ultrasonography

Influence of Point of Care Ultrasonography on Outcome of Inpatients Admitted To the Internal Ward

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Soroka University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a Prospective, Double-center, randomized clinical trial. The purpose of the trial is to evaluate the benefit of adding POC US to the management of inpatients admitted to the internal ward with respiratory, cardiovascular or hemodynamic abnormalities.

Detailed description

This is a Prospective, Double-center, randomized clinical trial. The purpose of the trial is to evaluate the benefit of adding POC US to the management of inpatients admitted to the internal ward with respiratory, cardiovascular or hemodynamic abnormalities. This is a stage 1 pilot trial aimed to provide better understanding on the study population and study groups. This trial will comprise a total of 60 patients, 30 subjects on the intervention group and an equal number on the control group. The results of this pilot trial will be to design a larger trial and calculate a required sample size.

Conditions

• Respiratory Abnormalities
• Cardiovascular Abnormalities
• Hemodynamic Instability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Point Of Care Ultrasound	Examination with an ultrasound machine

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-19
• Primary completion: 2019-07-01
• Completion: 2019-07-01
• First posted: 2015-05-06
• Last updated: 2019-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel