This study generates robust, uniform clinical data across emerging COVID-19 strains to train ML/AI algorithms of the Sponsor's imPulse™ Una infrasound-to-ultrasound e-stethoscope for digital diagnostic feature synthesis of asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19 digital biosignatures for rapid and accurate adult and child mass screening.
For the next few years or more, the planet probably won't have enough vaccine for everyone. Even as countries with large COVID-19 vaccination programs start pushing to resume travel and trade: We will not know who is vaccinated and who is not . We will not know who is an (a)symptomatic COVID-19 carrier and who is not. Because of this, the global community will remain in various stages of masking, social distancing, lock-down, and limited congregation because of cyclical COVID-19 spikes and people will continue to feel unsafe and afraid as novel COVID-19 variants appear and disappear. This large-scale, multi-site, multi-national study is informed by a completed pilot study at Johns Hopkins- NCT04556149. This study is designed to validate the ability of the imPulse™ Una infrasound-to-ultrasound e-stethoscope to rapidly and accurately screen outpatients with and without confirmed COVID-19 with sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value matching (PPA \>95%) for early, accurate, and rapid, self-directed and point-of-care diagnosis of COVID-19 in areas still lagging in access to vaccines.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
702
The imPulse™ System is an every/anywhere-point-of-care cardiopulmonary functional state assessment platform designed to capture normal and abnormal, audible and inaudible cardiopulmonary sounds, rhythms and patterns, via a real-time, intelligent, full-spectrum phonocardiogram obtained from direct to skin coupling or through a layer of clothing.
Real-time RT-PCR that detects amplified SARS-CoV-2 genome in sputum, nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swabs, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, nasal or nasopharyngeal aspirate, and lower respiratory tract aspirates.
High-resolution computer tomography, or CT/CAT, is an X-ray scan that produces images of the chest and is used as a confirmatory test in symptomatic patients that have a negative PCR test.
Laboratoire de la foundation Gombes
Pointe Noire, Kouilou, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Asian Institute of Public Health
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training ( IRESSEF)
Dakar, Almadies, Senegal
Digital vibroacoustic biomarker diagnostic performance characteristics
Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values - of the imPulse™ Una device for point-of-care diagnosis of COVID-19.
Time frame: Enrollment through to study completion (min 48hrs through to 3 months)
imPulse™ Una infrasound-to-ultrasound e-stethoscope device safety
Device safety
Time frame: Enrollment through to study completion (min 48hrs through to 3 months)
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