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NCT06827730: DATAPUS
PoCUS Impact on the Diagnostic Approach for Thoracic and Abdominal Pain in the ED
NA trial testing Point of care ultrasound in Abdominal Pain in 406 participants. Not yet recruiting.
1 June 2026
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Not yet recruiting |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | diagnostic |
| Enrollment | 406 |
| Start date | 1 June 2025 |
| Primary completion | 1 June 2026 |
| Estimated completion | 1 June 2027 |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Point of care ultrasound
Conditions studied
- Abdominal Pain — all drugs for Abdominal Pain →
- Thoracic Pain — all drugs for Thoracic Pain →
Sponsor
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Abdominal Pain or Thoracic Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Many medical specialties and paramedical fields are increasingly using point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS). In daily practice, thoracic and abdominal pain constitute a significant portion of emergency department consultations. PoCUS can be employed in various ways during thoracic and abdominal physical examinations. Most scientific societies advocate for its use to address specific clinical questions rather than to provide a definitive diagnosis. The integration of PoCUS into clinical examinations raises the question of its effectiveness in improving the diagnostic approach, rather than its diagnostic accuracy alone. Given the broad spectrum of differential diagnoses for thoracic and abdominal pain, this multicenter prospective study protocol aims to evaluate how PoCUS enhances the diagnostic approach for patients presenting with these symptoms in the emergency department. To assess the contribution of PoCUS, three members of an adjudication committee will blindly choose between two case report forms reporting the planned diagnostic approach for each patient: one completed before PoCUS and the other after its use by the investigator handling the case. The hypothesis that PoCUS improves the diagnostic approach by 60% will be reached if 60% of the improved diagnostic approaches favor the case report form filled out after PoCUS.
Publications & conference data
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06827730 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain
- Last refreshed: 14 February 2025
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