NCT06602856

Point-of-care-ultrasound in Swiss Air Rescue Rega

The Benefits of Pre-hospital POCUS Examinations in Air Rescue

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is, on the one hand, to objectively investigate the patient-oriented benefits of prehospital point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) examinations under the conditions of the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) in Switzerland. On the other hand, the study will show what the diagnostic quality of prehospital POCUS examinations is and how emergency medical teams can be trained to use POCUS in the future. HEMS crew members will answer a short online questionaire about how findings of their POCUS examination has influenced their medical treatment, diagnosis and selection of target hospital for the patient (primary outcome parameters). In addition, a study nurse will query the findings of the in-hospital diagnostic tests and compare them with the findings of the pre-hospital POCUS examination. This will enable the investigators to evaluate the diagnostic quality of the prehospital POCUS examination and to identify which findings are often not recognised in the POCUS. The subjective satisfaction and assessment of the benefit of the POCUS examination by the respective users will also be recorded (secondary outcome parameters).

Conditions

• Point-of-care-ultrasound
• Emergency Treatment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Point-of-care ultrasound examination	We are investigating the extent to which pre-hospital point-of-care ultrasound examination influences the further deployment tactics, medical treatment and choice of destination hospital for patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-01
• Primary completion: 2026-10-31
• Completion: 2027-05-01
• First posted: 2024-09-19
• Last updated: 2025-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland