Far Forward Battlefield Telemedicine: Evaluation of Handheld Ultrasound

NeuroTherapia, Inc.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thoracic Injuries

Treatments: Device: Miniature echo machine

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00615979

DAMD17-02-2-0040 (Other Identifier)

5279

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to improve survival of battlefield trauma through ultrasound telemedicine and remotely guided therapeutics.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-80 yrs old
• Scheduled for clinical echocardiogram

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

120 participants in 1 patient group

Miniature echo machine

Description:

Diagnostic capabilities Wireless transfer

Treatment:

Device: Miniature echo machine