Focused Cardiac Ultrasound

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pericardial Effusion; Septal Defect; Ventricular Dysfunction; Valvular Disease

Treatments: Device: Philips EPIQ 7 ultrasound machine; Device: Philips Lumify Broadband sector array transducer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03887286

20181089

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the images from standard cardiac ultrasound with images from a small hand-held device; to find out more about the feasibility and accuracy of a small hand-held ultrasound device.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients presenting to pediatric cardiology clinic at Holtz Children's hospital requiring comprehensive or limited transthoracic echocardiogram.
• Willing and able to provide informed consent or assent.
• In clinically stable condition as assessed by the principal investigator..
• With adequate echocardiographic windows.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with poor echocardiographic windows.
• Patients who refuse informed consent.
• Pregnant women.
• Prisoners.
• Patients deemed unfit to participate in the clinical trial as assessed by the principal investigator.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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47 participants in 1 patient group

treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

All participants to receive standard transthoracic echocardiogram and hand held echocardiogram

Treatment:

Device: Philips EPIQ 7 ultrasound machine

Device: Philips Lumify Broadband sector array transducer