Reliability of Subjective Assessment of the Heart by Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Transthoracic Echocardiography Clinical Trial

Official title:

Reliability of Subjective Qualitative Assessment of the Heart by Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Comparison With Conventional Transthoracic Echocardiography

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04521933
• Other study ID #: 09/2020
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 28, 2020
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate reliability of subjective qualitative assessment of the basic cardiac parameters by Point-pf-Care ultrasound.

Description:

Subjective qualitative assessment of ventricular function, diameter of the right ventricle and the size of inferior caval vein using cardiac Point-of-Care ultrasound is commonly performed by intensivists and emergency medicine physicians during the management of the patients with shock and/or acute respiratory failure. However, very little data is available to define the reliability of this qualitative examination. The presented study aims to assess this reliability.

Physicians meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria will be sent by a questionnaire consisting of 19 ultrasound cases. Participants will be asked to perform qualitative evaluation of ultrasound findings of each case. Then, the results will be compared with quantitative measurements made by conventional transthoracic echocardiography and validity testing will be performed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 25, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• physician with at least basic knowledge of cardiac Point-of-Care ultrasound who agrees to complete the questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria:

• not meet the inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Transthoracic Echocardiography

Intervention

Other:
• Survey
Each participant completes a questionnaire. In the questionnaire, he performs a subjective qualitative evaluation of Point-of-Care ultrasound records of the heart. Each participant will complete a questionnaire in which they perform a subjective qualitative evaluation of ultrasonographic recordings of the heart.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Czechia	Masaryk Hospital Usti nad Labem	Usti nad Labem

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic	Masaryk Hospital Usti nad Labem

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Czechia, 

References & Publications (1)

Lang RM, Badano LP, Mor-Avi V, Afilalo J, Armstrong A, Ernande L, Flachskampf FA, Foster E, Goldstein SA, Kuznetsova T, Lancellotti P, Muraru D, Picard MH, Rietzschel ER, Rudski L, Spencer KT, Tsang W, Voigt JU. Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults: an update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Mar;16(3):233-70. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jev014. Review. Erratum in: Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Apr;17(4):412. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Sep;17 (9):969. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reliability of subjective qualitative assessment of the heart by Point-of-Care ultrasound in comparison with conventional transthoracic echocardiography	Subjective assessment of Point-of-Care ultrasound records of the heart will be performed by participants via completion of the questionnaire. Thereafter, results of the survey will be compared with the objective measurements taken by conventional transthoracic echocardiography from the same records than presented in the questionnaire.	four weeks