Clinical ultrasound has become essential in emergency medicine. The guidelines are to use of echocardiography in specific contexts: dyspnea, hypotension or chest pain. The evaluation of left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) is one of the basic objectives of echocardiography. The reference assessment in emergency medicine is visual assessment. It suffers from poor inter-observer reproducibility. Pocket ultrasound scanners seem to meet the constraints of point-of-care ultrasound. A new tool is available on a pocket ultrasound device: the automatic evaluation of LVEF. Its interest could be to have a better inter-observer reproducibility than visual evaluation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
Four measurements in echocardiography performed in addition to standard care
CHRU de Nîmes - Hôpital Universitaire Carémeau
Nîmes, France
evaluate the interobserver reproducibility
evaluate the interobserver reproducibility of the automatic measurement of LVEF with a pocket ultrasound device
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Assess the interobserver reproducibility of visual LVEF
Assess the interobserver reproducibility of visual LVEF
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Interobserver reproducibility of the visual LVEF measurement;
Assess the interobserver reproducibility of the visual LVEF measurement;
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Evaluate the intraobserver reproducibility of the automatic LVEF measurement
Evaluate the intraobserver reproducibility of the automatic LVEF measurement
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Ability of the pocket ultrasound scanner to give an ultrasound image useable by the doctor performing the examination.
feasibility of each method (visual and automatic) to obtain an ultrasound image useable
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Ability of the pocket ultrasound scanner to give an ultrasound image useable by the doctor performing the examination considering image quality
Quality of image obtained by each méthod (Visual and Automatic)
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