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Ultrasonography in the Emergency Department

NCT02550184 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 288

Last updated 2015-10-28

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Summary

Aim To investigate if the proportion of correctly diagnosed patients at 4 hours after arrival to the Emergency Department (ED) increases when patients are diagnosed with standard diagnostics and focused ultrasonography examination (f-US) compared to standard diagnostics alone.

Methods The investigators are medical doctors who work in the ED and who use f-US as a diagnostic tool. The patients are those arriving to the ED with symptoms of difficulties of respiration.

All patients receive a f-US but only in the intervention group these results will be unblinded to the treating physician once he has made his 1. presumptive diagnosis . A final presumptive diagnosis has to be made within 4 hours from the patient´s admittance to the ED.

The correct diagnosis is assessed by a blinded audit of the medical journal. This project holds the potential to develop evidence-based optimization of early diagnostic accuracy.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Focused ultrasonographic examination.

Focused ultrasonographic examination of the lungs and the heart of patients who fulfill the inclusion criteria and who have given their informed and written consent for participation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Southern Denmark

    collaborator OTHER

  • Odense University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gunnar Baatrup, Professor · Department of Surgical Research. Department A, Odense University Hospital - Svendborg. Denmark.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-02-29
Completion
2016-09-30

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