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Usefulness of an Ultraportative Ultrasound Device in the Management of Intra Hospital Emergencies

Completed
Conditions
Failure; Cardiac
Respiratory Failure
Registration Number
NCT02967809
Lead Sponsor
Hospital Nord
Brief Summary

Estimate if the use of a portable cardiac echograph for intra-hospital Emergencie improves the performances diagnose in the bed of patient in department of conventional medicine.

The concordance between the initial medical diagnosis (previous the utilsation of portable echograph) and the final diagnosis (after portable echograph utisation) will be evaluated. These evaluation will be performed after retrospective review of the medical files

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
172
Inclusion Criteria
  • respiratory or cardiac distress
Exclusion Criteria
  • pulmonary or cardiac patient transplant morphologic abnormalities Patient in rescucitation care unit

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Concordance between initial medecial diagnosis and final diagnosis1 day

Concordance between the initial medical diagnosis at the bedside in ward and the definitive diagnosis after retrospective review of the medical files between two groups : one with an ultraportative echograph (POCUS group) and a control (without ultraportative group). The percentage of adequate initiale diagnosis at the bedside.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Departement anesthesie reanimation hopital nord

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Marseille, France

Departement anesthesie reanimation hopital nord
🇫🇷Marseille, France

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