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Telemedicine for Ultrasound Support in Nurse-based Outpatient Heart Failure Clinic

NCT02936050 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2021-11-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The cost related to management of heart failure is significant, both with respect to the financial costs and the suffer of patients. Still as much as 50% of heart failure patients are readmitted within 6 months after hospitalization for decompensated heart failure.

Specialized nurses have a growing role in diagnostics and follow-up of outpatient HF patients, and adding ultrasound diagnostics to the nurses consultations may improve care. In heart failure patients the use of ultrasound as a tool for assessing volume status and guidance of diuretic therapy are promising. Aim of the study is to evaluate the feasibility and reliability of echocardiographic acquisitions by heart failure nurses to assess cardiac function indices and assess volume status in outpatient heart failure clinics combined with a telemedicine approach for near real-time interpretation of the recordings by a cardiologist specialized in echocardiography and heart failure at a remote location.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Diagnostic ultrasound

All participants will be examined by diagnostic ultrasound by nurses for the assessment of the Cardiac size and function, and for volumic state. Transmission of the ultrasound recordings by telemedicine and interpretation by specialist in echocardiography and heart failure. All participants will then be examined by reference imaging in specific ultrasound laboratories.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    collaborator OTHER

  • Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Havard Dalen, MD, PhD · Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2017-01-31
Completion
2017-01-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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