Reliability of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Examination in Primary Care Performed by a General Practitioner
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 600
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Reliability of Point-of-Care ultrasound investigation of the lungs, gall bladder or proximal deep veins of lower extremities performed by general practitioner compared with the expert diagnostic method
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to evaluate reliability of Point-of-Care ultrasound evaluation performed by general practitioners.
详细描述
The purpose of this study is to evaluate reliability of Point-of-Care ultrasound (POCUS) evaluation performed by general practitioners.
General practitioners who underwent predefined training in POCUS will perform ultrasound examination in outpatients meeting inclusion criteria. While this is observational study, result will not have an impact on the management of the patients.
Regardless of the POCUS examination, patients undergo a routine diagnostic process which is appropriate for the initial symptom. Imaging examinations will always be a part of this. This will serve as an expert control to evaluate the reliability of POCUS Each POCUS examination will also be recorded as a video loop, subsequently assessed by an expert in the POCUS and also used as an expert control.
The data will be analyzed by standard reliability testing.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patient with abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant (will be indicated for the abdominal ultrasound) or patient with dyspnoea (will be indicated for lung ultrasound) or patient with suspected deep vein thrombosis (will be indicated for compression ultrasound testing)
- •Signing of informed consent to participate in the study
排除标准
- •Age <18 years
- •Refusal of ultrasound examination by patient
- •Any circumstance that prevents ultrasonographic examination (eg allergy to ultrasonographic gel, skin lesions that do not allow safe examination, etc.)
结局指标
主要结局
Reliability of Point-of-Care ultrasound investigation of the lungs, gall bladder or proximal deep veins of lower extremities performed by general practitioner compared with the expert diagnostic method
时间窗: 7 months
General practitioners will perform the type of Point-of-Care ultrasound investigation which will relate to the type of symptoms. Then, the result of this investigation will be compared with the expert diagnostic method. This will be chest X ray scan or pulmonary CT for group 1 patients, expert abdominal ultrasound for group 2 patients and expert complete compression ultrasound for group 3 patients. These examinations are not study interventions, while they are a routine procedures, which would be indicated irrespective of the study.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Roman Skulec
Principal Investigator
Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic