Prevalence Rate of Pulmonary Embolism Among Not Anticoagulated Patients

Pulmonary Embolism Clinical Trial

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Official title:

MeAsurement of uneXpected Acute Pulmonary embolIsM Among Not Anticoagulated Patients Older Than 75 Years Admitted With Syncope.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03525535
• Other study ID #: 2017-CHITS-04
• Secondary ID: 2017-A01197-46
• Status: Terminated
• Start date: June 14, 2018
• Est. completion date: November 27, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence rate of pulmonary embolism among not anticoagulated patient older than 75 years old admitted with syncope and hospitalised in the Toulon Hospital

Description:

This study will be proposed to every patient that correspond to eligibility criteria. Will be included only those who are not opposed to the collection of their data.

The data collected will come from the routine care such as medical history, clinical datas, imaging data… The number of pulmonary imaging will be assessed before the diagnostic strategy proposed by Dr Prandoni and after the application of this strategy thanks to a questionnaire to physicians.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 1
• Est. completion date: November 27, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: November 27, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 75 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or Female over 75 years-old

• Emergency consult resulting on an hospitalization in the geriatric service or in the internal medicine service

• Hospitalised in the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon for syncope, presenting these symptoms:

• Loss of consciousness with quick return to normal (less than one minute)

• Spontaneous resolution

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of syncope

• other loss of consciousness (epilepsy, stroke, head trauma)

• anticoagulated treatment

• patient's objection

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Embolism
• Pulmonary Embolism

Intervention

Other:
• data collection
data from patient included will be collected during the study

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon La Seyne sur Mer	La Seyne-sur-Mer	Var

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pulmonary embolism prevalence	Prevalence rate of pulmonary embolism among patient hospitalized for syncope and diagnosed with ventilation/perfusion scan or CT scan.	24 month
Secondary	Assess the impact of the Prandoni's recommendations on the paraclinical evaluations	Number of CT-scans that are made systematically since the Prandoni's recommendations are applied in the hospital	24 month