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NCT05602077: SONOELB
Accuracy of Sonography in Elbow Trauma
NA trial testing POCUS in Elbow Fracture in 90 participants. Completed in 31 March 2025.
31 March 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Eckehart SCHÖLL |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | diagnostic |
| Enrollment | 90 |
| Start date | 1 November 2022 |
| Primary completion | 31 March 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 31 March 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across Switzerland |
Drugs / interventions tested
- POCUS
Conditions studied
- Elbow Fracture — all drugs for Elbow Fracture →
- Radial Head Fracture — all drugs for Radial Head Fracture →
- Elbow Sprain — all drugs for Elbow Sprain →
- Coronoid Process Fracture — all drugs for Coronoid Process Fracture →
Sponsor
Eckehart SCHÖLL — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Elbow Fracture or Radial Head Fracture. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
X-rays (XR) are today the standard modality for the diagnosis of bone fractures in the lower or upper limbs in the emergency room. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an alternative with some obvious advantages especially in the emergency room setting: It does not require the patient to fix the bone of interest in a stable position, allows observing the bone and joints under movement by the patient, can be performed at bedside, and avoids the exposure to radiation. The advances in ultrasound technology has increased the interest in using POCUS as an alternative to XR in recent years. POCUS is used routinely prior to XR at the ORTHO-NOTFALL of the Merian Iselin Klinik Basel (MIK) in patients with suspicion for an indirect elbow trauma. It is the aim of this project to use this constellation in order to contribute to a systematic comparison of the value of the two modalities with the long-term aim to establish POCUS as the first-line diagnostic tool. As a fist project, the SONOELB study was initiated. This study aims at a comparison of the diagnostic accuracy between XR and POCUS using CT as reference. The project started in October 2022 and aims at enrolling 130 patients until March 2025. The project is financially supported by the Merian Iselin Science Research PLC.
Publications & conference data
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05602077 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Eckehart SCHÖLL
- Last refreshed: 16 April 2026
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