Perioperative Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography in Intensive and Critical Status

Transesophageal Echocardiography Clinical Trial

Official title: Establishment and Verification of Clinical Thinking Flowchart of Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Perioperative Patients in Intensive and Critical Status

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

We initiate this study to assess the diagnostic efficiency of PReTEE, a simplified TEE scan sequence with a combination of 3 valuable views of ME 4C, ME AV LAX and TG SAX, in identifying cardiac pathologies in the phase of difficult cardiopulmonary bypass separation among patients who will undergo high-risk cardiac surgical procedures.

Clinical Trial Description

There are 6 TEE operators who will participate in our trial, which is of restriction.

Also, the participants we scheme to include are all junior TEE operators at our institute, who have already skilled at images obtainment and interpretation. Prior to the trial initiation, all these TEE operators will be randomly assigned into either the PReTEE group or the conventional TEE group with a 1:1 ratio (3 per group). Due to another limitation of eligible patients, TEE examinations thereby for patients are not conducted by equal numbers of operators stratified by groups. Furthermore, patients will be examined by 1-4 operators and 1 expert without removing the probe when separated from cardiopulmonary bypass. The ultimate sample size we calculate is 46 TEE examinations. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Transesophageal Echocardiography

• NCT number: NCT05960552
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
• Contact: Chunhua Yu, MD
• Phone: 13811585975
• Email: yuchuh@pumch.cn
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2023
• Completion date: December 31, 2025