Lung Ultrasonography in COVID-19 Pneumonia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Covid19; Lung Ultrasound; Pneumonia
• Interventions: Device: lung ultrasonography

• Registration Number: NCT04719234
• Lead Sponsor: Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Education and Research Hospital

Brief Summary

Lung ultrasonography has been used for diagnosis and treatment in many departments including intensive care before the pandemic. The gold standard method for the diagnosis of pneumonia is still chest tomography. Ultrasonography, which has advantages over tomography, has also been tried to be used in covid 19 pneumonia.

Detailed Description

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the efficiency of lung ultrasonography in diagnosis of covid 19 pneumonia.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-06-15
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-01
• Study Completion: 2020-12-01
• Status Verified: 2021-01
• Study First Submitted: 2021-01-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-01-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-01-21
• Study First Posted: 2021-01-22
• Last Update Posted: 2021-01-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 and 85 years old
• Hospitalized in intensive care unit
• PCR tested
• Thoracic CT applied

Exclusion Criteria

• Previous lung and thoracic wall surgery
• Anatomically with thoracic wall disorder
• Patients who did not consent to participate in the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
lung ultrasound	lung ultrasonography	lung ultrasonography protocol will be applied.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Relationship between Thoracic CT imaging results and LUS results	6 hours	Lung ultrasonography will be performed within 6 hours of the Thoracic CT.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Characteristics of lesions	6 hours	İdentifying the characteristics of the abnormal findings detected in Thoracic CT and LUS

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Health Sciences, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital; 🇹🇷 Bursa, Turkey