Thoracic Injuries
Conditions
Keywords
trauma, portable ultrasound, telemedicine, Department of Defense
Brief summary
The goal of this study is to improve survival of battlefield trauma through ultrasound telemedicine and remotely guided therapeutics.
Detailed description
Specific aims to meet to improve the survival of battlefield trauma are 1)validation of portable ultrasound for diagnosis of various medical and surgical emergencies, ie cardiac tamponade, intraabdominal hemorrhage, 2)Extension of our expertise in digital echocardiography and local telemedicine to support other centers in such procedures as TEE 3)development of wireless telemedicine systems for rapid relay of ultrasonic images from portable ultrasound system to a remote review station. 4)development of a precision guide for diagnostic and therapeutic percutaneous procedures using ultrasound guidance 5)combining wireless telemetry with the guided percutaneous access tool to permit remotely guided emergency procedures 6)augmenting this work(2D/echo) with 3D/echo.
Interventions
DEVICEMiniature echo machine
Images captured and real-time and store-and-forward file transfers performed
Sponsors
United States Department of Defense
The Cleveland Clinic
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 18-80 yrs old * Scheduled for clinical echocardiogram
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Validation of small portable ultrasound units | single time point | paired t-testing and linear regression will be used to test the hypothesis that the small system is equivalent to the full-featured one (mean difference in values not different from 0 and slope of the regression line not different |
Outcome results
None listed