Ultrasound in Acute Dyspnea in the Field

Combination of Lung Ultrasound(a Comet-tail Sign) and N-terminal Pro-brain Natriuretic Paptide in Differentiating Acute Dyspnea in Prehospital Emergency Setting

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01235182

Enrollment

248

Registered

2010-11-05

Start date

2007-07-31

Completion date

2010-08-31

Last updated

2010-11-05

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Conditions

Asthma, COPD, Heart Failure

Keywords

acute dyspnea, prehospital emergency setting, differential diagnosis, ultrasound, NT-proBNP

Brief summary

Acute heart failure is one of the main causes of acute respiratory distres in prehospital emergency setting. The early and correct diagnosis is important because the misdiagnosis can result in deleterious consequeance to patients. Rapid bedside tests (like NT-proBNP) and point-of-care lung ultrasound could be useful methods in field. This study confirmed that the combination of ultrasound sign in combination with rapid NT-proBNP test has a hibh diagnostic accuracy in differentiating between cardiac and pulmonray causes of acute dyspnea in the field and the tretament possibilities in clinical obscure cases are mainly improved.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Inclusion criterion for the study was shortness of breath as the primary complaint (defined as either the sudden onset of dyspnea without history of chronic dyspnea or an increase in the severity of chronic dyspnea).

Exclusion criteria

Countries

Slovenia

Outcome results