Point-of-care ultrasound of the heart and lungs in patients with respiratory failure: a pragmatic randomized controlled multicenter trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Point-of-care ultrasound is a focus oriented tool for differentiating among cardiopulmonary diseases. Its value in the hands of emergency physicians, with various ultrasound experience, remains uncertain. We tested the hypothesis that, in emergency department patients with signs of respiratory failure, a point-of-care cardiopulmonary ultrasound along with standard clinical examination, performed by emergency physicians with various ultrasound experience would increase the proportion of patients with presumptive diagnoses in agreement with final diagnoses at four hours after admission compared to standard clinical examination alone.

Methods

In this prospective multicenter superiority trial in Danish emergency departments we randomly assigned patients presenting wit

SUBMITTER: Riishede M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8073910 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature