Impact of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanner Exclusively Dedicated to Emergency in the Clinical Management of Patients Presenting With Diplopia or Dizziness (IRM-DU)

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Completed

Conditions: MRI; Stroke; Emergency Department; Diplopia; Dizziness

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03660852

7015

Details and patient eligibility

About

IRM-DU is a prospective observational single center study conducted in an emergency department to evaluate the impact of a MRI scanner exclusively dedicated to emergency in the clinical management of patients presenting with dizziness or diplopia.

The study will compare 2 strategies : after and before availability of a MRI scanner dedicated to emergency.

The primary endpoint is the proportion of patients with a diagnosis of stroke confirmed by imaging (MRI or Computed tomography (CT)) in the group "before implementation of the emergency MRI scanner" and the group "after implementation of the emergency MRI scanner".

The hypothesis is that the availability of a MRI scanner dedicated to emergency will improve the diagnosis of stroke in patients presenting with dizziness or diplopia, and will reduce Emergency Department stay, hospital stay and hospitalisation costs.

Enrollment: 119 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age over 18 years
• non opponent to participate
• dizziness or diplopia requiring brain imaging in order to eliminate stroke

Exclusion criteria

• opponent to participate
• pregnant women
• recent cerebral trauma
• potentially eligible to thrombolysis
• impaired consciousness
• unable to give consent

Trial design

119 participants in 2 patient groups

Before dedicated MRI

After dedicated MRI