NCT04366453

Evaluation of LVEF by a New Automatic Evaluation Tool in a Pocket Ultrasound Scanner

Evaluation of the Ejection Fraction of the Left Ventricle in the Emergency Room by a New Automatic Evaluation Tool in a Pocket Ultrasound Scanner: A Reproducibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Clinical ultrasound has become essential in emergency medicine. The guidelines are to use of echocardiography in specific contexts: dyspnea, hypotension or chest pain. The evaluation of left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) is one of the basic objectives of echocardiography. The reference assessment in emergency medicine is visual assessment. It suffers from poor inter-observer reproducibility. Pocket ultrasound scanners seem to meet the constraints of point-of-care ultrasound. A new tool is available on a pocket ultrasound device: the automatic evaluation of LVEF. Its interest could be to have a better inter-observer reproducibility than visual evaluation.

Conditions

• Echocardiography
• Medicine, Emergency
• Technology Assessment, Biomedical
• Heart Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	echocardiography	Four measurements in echocardiography performed in addition to standard care

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-18
• Primary completion: 2022-10-27
• Completion: 2022-10-27
• First posted: 2020-04-29
• Last updated: 2024-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France