Ultrasound in Acute Dyspnea in the Field

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

248 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-07-31

Study Completion Date

2010-08-31

Brief Summary

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Acute heart failure is one of the main causes of acute respiratory distres in prehospital emergency setting. The early and correct diagnosis is important because the misdiagnosis can result in deleterious consequeance to patients. Rapid bedside tests (like NT-proBNP) and point-of-care lung ultrasound could be useful methods in field. This study confirmed that the combination of ultrasound sign in combination with rapid NT-proBNP test has a hibh diagnostic accuracy in differentiating between cardiac and pulmonray causes of acute dyspnea in the field and the tretament possibilities in clinical obscure cases are mainly improved.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heart Failure COPD Asthma

Keywords

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acute dyspnea prehospital emergency setting differential diagnosis ultrasound NT-proBNP

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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acute dyspnea, field, diagnostic

All patients with shortness of breath as the primary complaint (defined as eitherthe sudden onset of dyspnea without history of chronic dyspnea or an increase in the severity of chronic dyspnea and were age \>18 years.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Inclusion criterion for the study was shortness of breath as the primary complaint (defined as either the sudden onset of dyspnea without history of chronic dyspnea or an increase in the severity of chronic dyspnea).

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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Zdravstveni dom Adolfa Drolca Maribor, Center for Emergency Medicine Maribor

Principal Investigators

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Štefek Grmec, MD,PhD,Prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Center of Health Center for Emergency Medicine Maribor

Locations

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Center for Emergency Medicine maribor

Maribor, , Slovenia

Site Status

Countries

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Slovenia

References

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Klemen P, Golub M, Grmec S. Combination of quantitative capnometry, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide, and clinical assessment in differentiating acute heart failure from pulmonary disease as cause of acute dyspnea in pre-hospital emergency setting: study of diagnostic accuracy. Croat Med J. 2009 Apr;50(2):133-42. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2009.50.133.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

PMID: 19399946 (View on PubMed)

Prosen G, Klemen P, Strnad M, Grmec S. Combination of lung ultrasound (a comet-tail sign) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in differentiating acute heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency setting. Crit Care. 2011;15(2):R114. doi: 10.1186/cc10140. Epub 2011 Apr 14.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 21492424 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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ADMB2010

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id