Usefulness of an Ultraportative Ultrasound Device in the Management of Intra Hospital Emergencies

Hospital Nord172 enrolled

Overview

Estimate if the use of a portable cardiac echograph for intra-hospital Emergencie improves the performances diagnose in the bed of patient in department of conventional medicine. The concordance between the initial medical diagnosis (previous the utilsation of portable echograph) and the final diagnosis (after portable echograph utisation) will be evaluated. These evaluation will be performed after retrospective review of the medical files

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

172

Conditions

Respiratory Failure Failure; Cardiac

Interventions

echographyDEVICE

cardiac and pulmonary echography

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * respiratory or cardiac distress Exclusion Criteria: * pulmonary or cardiac patient transplant morphologic abnormalities Patient in rescucitation care unit

Locations (1)

Departement anesthesie reanimation hopital nord

Marseille, France

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Concordance between initial medecial diagnosis and final diagnosis

Concordance between the initial medical diagnosis at the bedside in ward and the definitive diagnosis after retrospective review of the medical files between two groups : one with an ultraportative echograph (POCUS group) and a control (without ultraportative group). The percentage of adequate initiale diagnosis at the bedside.

Time frame: 1 day

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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