Patient in intensive care unit J00-J99 I00-I99
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Execution of a whole-body ultrasound protocol (neurosonography, pulmonary ultrasound, critical care echocardiography, ultrasound of the abdomen, vessel ultrasound) on the day of admission on
Sponsors
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Consecutive patients that are admitted to two anesthesiology supervised intensive care units
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - no consent for study participation - palliative treatment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Frequency of therapy changes after execution of the FASP-ICU protocol (day of admission to the intensive care unit and days 3, 6, 10 and 15 of the intensive care stay) - Incidence/magnitude and frequency of sonographic ascertainable pathologies on every examination day - Usefulness of the sonographic evaluation by the FASP-ICU protocol (questionnaire) answered by the attending resident and attending consultant | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Duration for executing the FASP-ICU protocol on the different examination days - Dynamics of sonographic pathologies on the different examination days - Sonographic image quality for different organ systems on different examination days - Correlation of critical care parameters/scores (SAPS II, etc.) with sonograhic pathologies - Accuracy of preexisting sonographic examinations and diagnoses - Extensive subanalysis of the sonographic pathologies for different organ systems related to appearance/dynamic/treatment/therapeutic intervention/correlation with laboratory parameters and results of other examinations (chest x-ray, CT, etc.), etc. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactStefan Schmidt
Universitätsklinikum Göttingen Klinik für Anästhesiologie
Outcome results
None listed