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Phased-Array Versus Curvilinear Probe for FAST Ultrasonography

NCT07037797 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2660

Last updated 2025-06-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background:

FAST ultrasound is a crucial technique in emergency medicine, enabling rapid assessment of trauma patients.

By allowing visualization of an effusion in a trauma patient in a far more sensitive and specific way than clinical examination, it enables informed decisions to be made on therapeutics, technical gestures, but also the potential receiving service.

Arbitrarily, FAST ultrasound is taught with the cardiac probe (phased-array) and the abdominal probe (curvilinear). The difference in use of these two probes varies according to operator and team, with no figures available.

No recent study has been conducted on the possibility of better diagnostic performance of FAST with a curvilinear versus phased-array probe.

Objective:

The main objective of this project is to evaluate and compare the diagnostic performance of FAST ultrasound using a phased-array probe versus a curvilinear probe in the detection of effusions in trauma patients (FAST protocol).

Materials and methods:

Prospective, interventional, multicenter, randomized study.

Hypothesis tested:

FAST-ultrasound with a curvilinear probe improves diagnostic performance compared with FAST-ultrasound with a phased-array probe.

Conditions

  • Chest Trauma
  • Abdominal Trauma

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Order of the FAST echography

Randomisation of the order in which probes are used

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Memorial France Etats-Unis

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Félix AMIOT, MD · Hopital Mémorial France Etats-Unis - Urgences/SAMU/SMUR

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-01
Primary Completion
2027-05-01
Completion
2027-05-02

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