Hip POCUS for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Hip Effusion.

Hip Effusion Clinical Trial

Official title:

Accuracy of Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for the Diagnosis of Hip Effusion Among Children in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04720066
• Other study ID #: 0119-20-MMC
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: September 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: January 2022

Study information

• Verified date: October 2021
• Source: Meir Medical Center
• Contact: Ayelet shles, MD
• Phone: 972525200407
• Email: ayeletsh22[@]clalit.org.il
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Limping is a common complaint among children presenting in the Pediatric ED the evaluation of a limp among infants and toddlers is challenging doe to the lack of specific history and the difficulty in locating the pain - therefore hip sonography is frequently used in the clinical evaluation of these children.

Sonographic examination for the diagnosis of hip effusion is routinely performed by the radiologist, however, since the integration of Point of care Ultrasound (POCUS) as part of the clinical evaluation of children in the ED in many application - Hip pocus is frequently performed by pediatric Emergency Medicine physicians.

The existing data on hip POCUS is scarce and comprised of small uncontrolled studies.

We aimed to examine the specificity and sensitivity of hip Pocus performed by pediatric emergency physicians by comparing it to the scan performed by the radiologist.

the primary outcome measurement is the ability of the POCUS exam to identify or rule out the existence of hip effusion as demonstrated in the formal radiological Ultrasound scan.

Description:

Children (0-18 years) presenting to the PED in Meir medical center with limp pain (not due to trauma) or a limp are recruited After consenting to participate in the study and completing the registration process the primary physician who is an approved researcher by the institutes IRB will perform hip POCUS as part of the clinical evaluation and will record his interpretation in the medical file. A formal ultrasound scan will be perfumed additionally by the radiologist. Both examination will be reviewed by POCUS lead physician and the Pediatric radiologist.

The patient's clinical and epidemiological data will be extracted from the electronic chart.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: January 2022
• Est. primary completion date: January 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria: pediatric patients presenting to the PED with the complaint of a limp or a lower limb pain

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Exclusion Criteria:

• trauma patients

• patients with an obvious diagnosis other than pain resulting from the hip joint on their physical examination.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hip Effusion

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Ultrasound test
point of care ultrasound performed by PEM physicians to limping children presenting to the PED compared to radiologist performed ultrasound test.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Ayelet Shles	Kfar Saba

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Meir Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	accuracy of POCUS examination for the detection of hip effusion among limping children	POCUS examination results compared to formal radiology ultrasound examination performed .	both examination are performed during the same 1 day ED visit.