Echocardiographic Examination Performed by Nurses in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title:

Echocardiographic Examination Performed by Nurses in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Is it Clinical Useful?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00886548
• Other study ID #: SL-20091
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: April 2009
• Est. completion date: May 2010

Study information

• Verified date: November 2021
• Source: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is:

• To study the clinical usefulness of nurse-performed ultrasound and echocardiographic examinations in a cardiac intensive care unit.

• To study reproducibility of nurse-performed ultrasound and echocardiographic examinations in a cardiac intensive care unit.

• To study which ultrasound measure that best correlate with the amount of pleural effusion.

Description:

For a period of 1 year patients in our cardiac intensive care unit will be recruited to nurse-drive ultrasound and echocardiographic examinations, after informed consent. Nurses underwent a training programme and their skills are approved by cardiologist. Our department does not always have a cardiologist on duty and indication for nurse-driven ultrasound examination is decided by the doctor responsible for the treatment, who not always are trained in echocardiography/ultrasound. We aim to study the described hypothesis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: May 2010
• Est. primary completion date: May 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient at Cardiac intensive care unit, Levanger Hospital

• Doctor responsible for treatment finds echocardiographic/ultrasound examination indicated.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure
• Infarction
• Myocardial Infarction
• Pleural Effusion

Intervention

Procedure:
• Ultrasound performed
Nurse-driven ultrasound performed

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Department of Medicine, Hospital of Levanger	Levanger

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change of diagnosis		6-12 months
Secondary	Change of treatment		6-12 months
Secondary	Quantification of pleural effusion		6-12 months
Secondary	Reproducibility of nurse-performed examinations		6-12 months