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Comparison Between Lung Ultrasound and Chest Radiography for Acute Dyspnea

NCT02105207 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 530

Last updated 2016-04-06

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Summary

For patients presenting to the Emergency Department with acute dyspnea, emergency physicians will be asked to categorize the diagnosis as acute decompensated heart failure or non-cardiogenic shortness of breath a) after the initial clinical assessment, and b) after performing lung ultrasound (LUS) for LUS arm or after chest radiography (CXR) and natriuretic peptide (NT-pro BNP) results for CXR arm. All patients will undergo CXR, those enrolled in the LUS arm, after sonographic evaluation. After discharge, the cause of patient's dyspnea will be determined by independent review of the entire medical records performed by two emergency physicians. In case of disagreement, a third expert physician will review entire medical records, and adjudicate the case.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Lung Ultrasound

Lung ultrasound evaluation is performed after clinical assessment and before chest radiography

OTHER

Chest Radiography

Chest Radiography is performed after clinical evaluation without using ultrasound assessment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Turin, Italy

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Enrico Lupia, MD, PhD · University of Turin, Italy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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