Far Forward Battlefield Telemedicine: Evaluation of Handheld Ultrasound
- Conditions
- Thoracic Injuries
- Interventions
- Device: Miniature echo machine
- Registration Number
- NCT00615979
- Lead Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
- Brief Summary
The goal of this study is to improve survival of battlefield trauma through ultrasound telemedicine and remotely guided therapeutics.
- Detailed Description
Specific aims to meet to improve the survival of battlefield trauma are 1)validation of portable ultrasound for diagnosis of various medical and surgical emergencies, ie cardiac tamponade, intraabdominal hemorrhage, 2)Extension of our expertise in digital echocardiography and local telemedicine to support other centers in such procedures as TEE 3)development of wireless telemedicine systems for rapid relay of ultrasonic images from portable ultrasound system to a remote review station. 4)development of a precision guide for diagnostic and therapeutic percutaneous procedures using ultrasound guidance 5)combining wireless telemetry with the guided percutaneous access tool to permit remotely guided emergency procedures 6)augmenting this work(2D/echo) with 3D/echo.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 120
- 18-80 yrs old
- Scheduled for clinical echocardiogram
- None
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Miniature echo machine Miniature echo machine Diagnostic capabilities Wireless transfer
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Validation of small portable ultrasound units single time point paired t-testing and linear regression will be used to test the hypothesis that the small system is equivalent to the full-featured one (mean difference in values not different from 0 and slope of the regression line not different
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method