Baseline Evaluation of Lymph Nodes in the Lower Quadrant Young People Using Point of Care Ultrasound
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 500
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Number and sizes of lymph nodes present in the right lower quadrant on abdominal POCUS
研究概览
简要总结
Abdominal pain is one of the commonest presentations to the paediatric emergency department. Many children are brought to the PED due to concerns about surgical intra-abdominal pathology such as appendicitis. Mesenteric adenitis is commonly attributed as a cause of the patient's pain but is done so without confirmatory imaging findings and as a diagnosis of exclusion.
There is a paucity of evidence pertaining to the sonographic findings of mesenteric adenitis.
The investigators aim to categorise the normal appearances using POCUS in patients presenting to the paediatric emergency department without any abdominal or infectious complaint, in order to describe the range of normal lymph node numbers and size present on scan. By defining what's normal, the ultimate aim will be to use POCUS to actively identify abnormalities that diagnose mesenteric adenitis.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 2 Years 至 16 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •- patients aged 2 - 16 years who present to the paediatric emergency department with the following conditions: head injury, facial injury, neck injury, upper and lower limb injury.
排除标准
- •any child who has had symptoms of vomiting (including those with concurrent head injury), diarrhoea, abdominal pain, anorexia, temperature or active evidence of urinary or respiratory tract infection within the last four weeks.
- •Any patient who has undergone abdominal surgery in the last 6 months.
结局指标
主要结局
Number and sizes of lymph nodes present in the right lower quadrant on abdominal POCUS
时间窗: 6 months
To describe the normal range, in terms of the number and size of lymph nodes present in the right lower quadrant on abdominal POCUS in asymptomatic children.
次要结局
未报告次要终点