Transthoracic echocardiography in ACS patients in the pre-hospital emergency

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• Conditions: myocardial infarction; I20; I21; Angina pectoris; Acute myocardial infarction

• Registration Number: DRKS00004919
• Lead Sponsor: niversitätsmedizin GöttingenZentrum Anästhesiologie, Rettungs- und Intensivmedizin

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-04-29
• Study Completion: 2015-01-31
• Results First Posted: 2018-02-07
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 53

Inclusion Criteria

Be included adult patients (= 18 years) treated by the emergency physician at ACS. Planned are 100 patients, with 50 patients in the standard procedure, and 50 patients in cardiac echo examination study group

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are:
- Lack of patient consent
- A history of heart attack
- = Known heart failure = / > NYHA III
- Previously described wall motion abnormalities in cardiac echo (post hoc exclusion)

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Compliance of identified wall motion abnormalities with ischemic area in the cardiac catheterization findings<br>- Contact-to-balloon time with NSTEMI (Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Incidence of NSTEMI ACS patients<br>- Pre-clinically feasible echocardiography (examination quality)<br>- Incidence of wall motion abnormalities in ACS patients<br>- Incidence of other diseases diagnosed by TTE (transthoracic Echocardiography) (pleural effusion, pulmonary embolism, aortic stenosis / insufficiency, pericardial effusion)<br>- 30 and 90 days in-hospital-mortality<br>- Hospital days, ICU days, and monitor surveillance