In children with Covid-19, the diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease (KD) and pneumonia should be made very quickly. However, the regional hospitals surrounding Paris don't have the required expertise. The use of MELODY allows the paediatric team to quickly carry out the necessary examinations while avoiding the movement of patients and the risk of contamination. The MELODY remote system developed by the company AdEchoTech is a CE marking telemedicine technique, allowing an expert to perform an ultrasound scan on a distant patient (several hundred/thousands of kms). The Melody system makes it possible to optimize ultrasound expertise resources wherever they are located (all specialties combined) The feasibility of the clinical use of telerobotic sonography has been demonstrated in adults for abdominal, cardiac and prenatal exam. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of this system in children.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
The children will first have a telerobotic ultrasound abdominal, pulmonary or cardiac followed by a classical ultrasound.
CHI Créteil
Créteil, France
CHI Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France
Number of normal and abnormal standard and telerobotic ultrasound examinations
Number of normal and abnormal examination conclusion for telerobotic and conventional ultrasound examinations
Time frame: 1 day
Age of participants
Age of patients with telerobotic ultrasound
Time frame: At baseline
Number of anomalies found
Conventional and telerobotic ultrasound examinations results
Time frame: Up to 4 hours
Parent satisfaction
Parent satisfaction questioner for the telerobotic examination using a 5-point Liekert scale from 1: "strongly disagree" to 5: "strongly agree"
Time frame: Up to 4 hours
Medical assistant satisfaction
Medical assistant satisfaction questioner for the telerobotic examination using a 5-point Liekert scale from 1: "strongly disagree" to 5: "strongly agree"
Time frame: Up to 4 hours
Sonographer satisfaction
Sonographer satisfaction questioner for the telerobotic examination using a 5-point Liekert scale from 1: "strongly disagree" to 5: "strongly agree"
Time frame: Up to 4 hours
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