Usefulness of an Ultraportative Ultrasound Device in the Management of Intra Hospital Emergencies

Estimate if the use of a portable cardiac echograph for intra-hospital Emergencie improves the performances diagnose in the bed of patient in department of conventional medicine.

The concordance between the initial medical diagnosis (previous the utilsation of portable echograph) and the final diagnosis (after portable echograph utisation) will be evaluated. These evaluation will be performed after retrospective review of the medical files

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Key information

Conditions

Respiratory Failure Cardiovascular Diseases Failure; Cardiac Heart Diseases Heart Failure Respiration Disorders Respiratory Insufficiency Respiratory Tract Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Departement anesthesie reanimation hopital nord

Marseille, 13015, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

respiratory or cardiac distress

Exclusion criteria

pulmonary or cardiac patient transplant morphologic abnormalities Patient in rescucitation care unit

Treatment and study plan

Echography

Device

cardiac and pulmonary echography

Primary outcomes

Concordance between initial medecial diagnosis and final diagnosis

Time frame: 1 day

Concordance between the initial medical diagnosis at the bedside in ward and the definitive diagnosis after retrospective review of the medical files between two groups : one with an ultraportative echograph (POCUS group) and a control (without ultraportative group). The percentage of adequate initiale diagnosis at the bedside.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hospital Nord

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2018
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Nov 18, 2016
Registry last updated: Apr 27, 2020

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