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

NCT01818882 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 85

Last updated 2016-04-06

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

Interventions

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).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Xavier Bobbia, MD · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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Diseases

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