Can the Thoracic Replace the Conventional Radiography for the Diagnosis of Acute Pneumonia in Children?

Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: Thoracic ultrasound; Other: CXR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02781363

2015/51-PED-HGC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Thoracic ultrasound is a safer and sensitive technique than conventional radiography because it detects less than 1 cm pneumonic consolidations and minimal pleural effusions. The main objective is to evaluate the efficacy of thoracic ultrasound performed by unskilled personnel in the emergency service prdiatricas to diagnose pneumonia in children.

Full description

Diagnostic test evaluation.The sample collected sequentially until an exact size . Given the safety of the technique, which involves no risk to patient management and the possibility of generating a type II error by premature study discontinuation , we have no plans to make any interim analyzes .

Sex: All

Ages: 3 months to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• fever above 38 degrees
• tachypnea
• Difficulty breathing
• Side tip pain
• pathological auscultation

Exclusion criteria

• < 3 months> 14 years
• Background of Prematurity
• Rewalizados imaging studies in the last 7 days
• Any chronic respiratory process
• congenital heart diseases
• hemodynamic instability
• Diagnosis of pneumonia in the last 3 months
• Refusal of relatives to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Candidates patients chest X-ray with pneumonia

Other group

Description:

thoracic sonography CXR Clinical control 48h

Treatment:

Other: CXR

Other: Thoracic ultrasound

Candidates patients chest X-ray without pneumonia

Other group

Description:

thoracic sonography CXR Clinical control 48h

Treatment:

Other: CXR

Other: Thoracic ultrasound