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Point of Care Ultrasound for Suspected Small Bowel Obstruction in the Emergency Department

NCT02190981 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 217

Last updated 2019-04-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing small bowel obstruction in emergency department patients, as compared to the criterion standards of computed tomography, operative reports, or discharge diagnosis.

The secondary purposes of the study include evaluation of the effect of ultrasound for small bowel obstruction on the patient length of stay in the emergency department and the diagnostic utility of specific ultrasound findings in the diagnosis of small bowel obstruction. The study will also examine the inter-rater agreement between point-of-care sonographers' interpretation and blinded reviewers' interpretation of the ultrasound images.

Conditions

  • Small Bowel Obstruction

Interventions

DEVICE

Ultrasound for Small Bowel Obstruction

Point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate emergency department patients for suspected small bowel obstruction

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, Irvine

    collaborator OTHER

  • Christiana Care Health Services

    collaborator OTHER

  • WellSpan Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Brent A Becker, MD · Wellspan Health York Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-07-31
Primary Completion
2017-02-28
Completion
2019-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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