Prevalence Rate of Pulmonary Embolism Among Not Anticoagulated Patients

Terminated

• Conditions: Pulmonary Embolism
• Interventions: Other: data collection

• Registration Number: NCT03525535
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence rate of pulmonary embolism among not anticoagulated patient older than 75 years old admitted with syncope and hospitalised in the Toulon Hospital

Detailed Description

This study will be proposed to every patient that correspond to eligibility criteria. Will be included only those who are not opposed to the collection of their data.

The data collected will come from the routine care such as medical history, clinical datas, imaging data... The number of pulmonary imaging will be assessed before the diagnostic strategy proposed by Dr Prandoni and after the application of this strategy thanks to a questionnaire to physicians.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-05-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-05-03
• Study First Posted: 2018-05-15
• Study Start: 2018-06-14
• Primary Completion: 2018-11-27
• Study Completion: 2018-11-27
• Status Verified: 2019-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-09-13
• Last Update Posted: 2019-09-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1

Inclusion Criteria

• Male or Female over 75 years-old
• Emergency consult resulting on an hospitalization in the geriatric service or in the internal medicine service
• Hospitalised in the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon for syncope, presenting these symptoms:
• Loss of consciousness with quick return to normal (less than one minute)
• Spontaneous resolution

Exclusion Criteria

• history of syncope
• other loss of consciousness (epilepsy, stroke, head trauma)
• anticoagulated treatment
• patient's objection

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pulmonary embolism	data collection	data from routine care will be collected for patient eligible and willing to participate

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pulmonary embolism prevalence	24 month	Prevalence rate of pulmonary embolism among patient hospitalized for syncope and diagnosed with ventilation/perfusion scan or CT scan.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assess the impact of the Prandoni's recommendations on the paraclinical evaluations	24 month	Number of CT-scans that are made systematically since the Prandoni's recommendations are applied in the hospital

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon La Seyne sur Mer; 🇫🇷 La Seyne-sur-Mer, Var, France