NCT04612816

Live Stream of Ultrasound in Prehospital Medical Care

Completed Last updated 14 September 2021

What this trial tests

trial testing Prehospital ultrasound in Ultrasound in 25 participants. Completed in 31 August 2021.

Timeline

19 October 2020

Primary endpoint
31 August 2021

31 August 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Medical University of Vienna
Status	Completed
Study type	OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment	25
Start date	19 October 2020
Primary completion	31 August 2021
Estimated completion	31 August 2021
Sites	1 location across Austria

Drugs / interventions tested

• Prehospital ultrasound

Conditions studied

• Ultrasound — all drugs for Ultrasound →

Sponsor

Medical University of Vienna

Who can join

Adults 18 to 116, any sex, with Ultrasound. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Prehospital emergency ultrasound (PEU) is being increasingly used in different preclinical emergency systems across the world. Ultrasound examinations in emergency situations, however, remain challenging even in the hospital setting despite the availability of standardized approaches such as Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST). Preclinical circumstances further complicate the adequate execution of an additional diagnostic tool such as PEU on the scene or inside a medical emergency vehicle. Furthermore, rapid translation of ultrasound findings into meaningful therapeutic consequences is considerably demanding in an environment of limited resources. If focused PEU is correctly used and patients' condition allows emergency doctors a careful ultrasound examination, it is possible to differentiate life-threatening diagnoses. PEU should be implemented in the management of emergency patients affected by trauma, cardiac arrest/shock or respiratory problems. To date it is unclear whether PEU results in improved outcome.

Some emergency cases present difficult challenges in the prehospital ultrasound examination. Portable devices designed for PEU suggest the possibility of increasing the use of ultrasound "in the field". However, to the investigator's knowledge, opportunities for real-time consultation with a second specialist including live transmission of the ultrasound picture are not being provided at any preclinical emergency facility.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Remote real-time supervision of prehospital point-of-care ultrasound: a feasibility study.
   Hermann M, Hafner C, Scharner V, Hribersek M, et al · · 2022 · cited 20× · PMID 35331304 · DOI 10.1186/s13049-021-00985-0
2. Remote Real-Time Supervision of Prehospital Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Feasibility Study
   Hermann M, Hafner C, Scharner V, Hribersek M, et al · · 2021 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-900534/v1