Transesophageal Echocardiography To Diagnose Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury Traumatic Aortic Injury

Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Trauma Chest

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05226858

NMRR-21-518-59250 (IIR)

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine test performance of transesophageal echocardiography performed by emergency physician ultrasound for the identification of blunt traumatic aortic injury in chest trauma.

Full description

This is a multicentre prospective observational trial. All trauma patients with suspected BTAI at the emergency department (ED) will undergo resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography to evaluate the thoracic aorta.

Resuscitative TEE is a minimally invasive procedure to evaluate all chest trauma patients. Besides the aorta, TEE can also provide other useful information regarding the hemodynamic status, cardiac function and lung pathology of the patient.

Patients will be recruited into the study by investigators who take informed consent from the patient or next of kin prior to the TEE procedure.

For all patients with suspected BTAI, CTA is mandatory to confirm the diagnosis of BTAI.

TEE findings of BTAI will be compared to CTA which will be considered the reference standard unless confirmation is available from surgical procedures or autopsy.

Inter-observer variability for normal or pathological TEE images interpretation is performed prior to the initiation of the study.

Enrollment: 56 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All trauma patients with suspected BTAI in the emergency department (ED) who undergo both TEE and CTA.

Exclusion criteria

1. Children (age under 18 years) will not be eligible for inclusion in this study.
2. Patients with contraindication to TEE such as suspected esophageal injury or pathology

Trial design

56 participants in 1 patient group

Trauma patients with suspected blunt traumatic aortic injury (BTAI)

Description:

All trauma patients with suspected BTAI at the emergency department who require both transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and computed tomography angiography (CTA).

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)