NCT05492474

Cranial Ultrasound for Prehospital ICH Diagnosis

Cranial Ultrasound for Prehospital ICH Diagnosis (CUPID_EMS)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 81 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate the feasibility of Emergency Medical System (EMS)-performed cPOCUS in the field for diagnosis of acute Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)

Detailed description

With the over-arching goal of achieving early diagnosis of Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) with cPOCUS, this study hypothesizes that (a) Emergency Medical System (EMS) personnel can competently perform cPOCUS in the field in a timely fashion in a large majority of stroke patients; (b) acquired POCUS images can be successfully and securely transmitted for a remote physician interpretation in a timely manner; and (c) cPOCUS will have a greater sensitivity and specificity than clinical scores as a screening tool for ICH identification in pre-hospital settings.

Conditions

• Intracerebral Hemorrhage
• Acute Ischemic Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Cranial Point of Care Ultrasound	Cranial ultrasound involves 2-dimensional B mode imaging of the brain parenchyma in the axial plane using a 1-2 MHz probe through the thin temporal bone. Upload of cPOCUS images will occur over DICOM® based Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant platforms accessible via Cloud. Currently all handheld machines use Tricefy® or their own cloud based remote image access application.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-24
• Completion: 2023-04-24
• First posted: 2022-08-08
• Last updated: 2024-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States