Robot-based Tele-echography II - A Comparative Study

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Abdominal Injuries; Thoracic Injuries; High Energy Trauma

• Registration Number: NCT00295438
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Grenoble

Brief Summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to evaluate the concordance of diagnosis of injuries in thoracoabdominal trauma using two different echographic methods. The first method is a robot-based tele-echography performed by radiologists in a remote location. The second is bedside echography performed by emergency physicians according to the FAST (Focussed Assessment by Sonography of Trauma) examination.

Detailed Description

1. Principal objective: to evaluate the concordance of diagnosis of injuries in thoracoabdominal trauma using two different echographic methods (robot-based tele-echography performed by radiologists in a remote location vs bedside echography performed by emergency physicians according to the FAST examination).

2. Objective 2: after the realization of a gold standard method, if there is a concordance between the two different echographic methods, sensitivity and specificity are estimated. If not, the evaluation of sensitivity and specificity of each method with analysis of their discordance is performed.

3. Objective 3: qualitative evaluation of each echographic method by the patient and the physicians.

4. Material and methods: This therapeutic, mono-centre, prospective, randomized, cross-over, open, controlled trial is being conducted in 70 patients. All the patients will have the two different echographic methods in a sequential but randomized way. The robot-based tele-echography is performed by a radiologist in the North University Hospital of Grenoble. The bedside echography is performed by the emergency physicians in the trauma center in the South University Hospital of Grenoble.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-02
• Study First Submitted: 2006-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-02-21
• Study First Posted: 2006-02-23
• Primary Completion: 2009-01
• Study Completion: 2009-03
• Status Verified: 2016-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-09-14
• Last Update Posted: 2016-09-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 18

Inclusion Criteria

• Person registered with the French Social Security or benefiting from an equivalent health insurance system
• Person sent to hospital for thoracoabdominal high energy trauma

Exclusion Criteria

• Ward of court or under guardianship
• Adult unable to express their consent
• Person deprived of freedom by judicial or administrative decision
• Person hospitalized without their consent
• Person under legal protection
• Person participating in another clinical study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The diagnosis concordance between the radiologists using the robot-based tele-echography and the emergency physicians (FAST bedside examination) is evaluated thanks to the Cohen kappa interrater agreement coefficient.	6 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
qualitative scores (including comfort and experience of the patient, quality of the echographic method evaluated by the physicians).	6 month
sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV are estimated with a 95% confidence interval	6 month

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital; 🇫🇷 Grenoble, France