Evaluating Auscul-X, a Touch Free Digital Stethoscope, for Physical Distancing to Protect Patients and Health Care Professionals From COVID-19 (The Auscul-X Study)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Feasibility and use of Auscul-X for listening to heart and lung sounds will be assessed by ICU clinicians to determine Auscul-X is at least equivalent to a digital stethoscope using a Likert scale for comparison.
研究概览
简要总结
Auscul-X a touch free digital stethoscope will permit physical distancing of healthcare providers while maintaining the ability to auscultate patients from a safe distance (over 10 feet away)
详细描述
The Auscul-X System (AusculSciences Canada, Inc.), is novel, professional grade, touch free, multichannel, touch-free electronic stethoscope with disposable elements designed to protect HCPs from exposure to infection diseases by allowing them to auscultate patients from a safe distance (10 feet away). The sensors can stay in place and enable providers to listen on-demand to a patient's heart and lungs over an extended period of time. This practice of distancing in the workplace is a key CDC and PHAC recommendation to protect the frontline HCP from exposure risk to the highly contagious COVID- 19 virus and other communicable diseases. The Auscul-X not only has the potential to better protect HCPs from infection, but also eliminates the potential transmission of pathogens through the use of conventional stethoscopes. In addition, the Auscul-X allows multiple HCPs to listen to the patient's heart and lung sounds simultaneously
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 100 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •>/=18 years old
- •Admitted to ICCU and CSICU at UOHI
排除标准
- •Age < 18 years old
- •Medically Unstable
- •Chest wall deformity or wounds in adhesive application areas
- •Unwillingness or inability to provide Informed Consent or to comply with protocol
结局指标
主要结局
Feasibility and use of Auscul-X for listening to heart and lung sounds will be assessed by ICU clinicians to determine Auscul-X is at least equivalent to a digital stethoscope using a Likert scale for comparison.
时间窗: up to 1 Year
To determine the feasibility of implementing Auscul-X in the critical/intensive care environment (ICCU and CSICU).
次要结局
- The measurement for acoustic quality in high risk settings determined as clarity and loudness by means of a Likert scale for comparison of Auscul-X and digital stethoscopes by clinicians.(up to 1 year)