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

N/ACompletedNCT04521933

Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic52 enrolled

Overview

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

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Transthoracic Echocardiography

Interventions

SurveyOTHER

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.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Masaryk Hospital Usti nad Labem

Ústí nad Labem, Czechia

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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.

Time frame: four weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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