Clinical trials: eFast
Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Video-Based Versus Bedside eFAST Training in Final-Year Medical Students
This study compared two methods of teaching the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) examination to final-year medical students.
- Conditions
- Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), eFast
- Trial name
- NCT07790497
- Testing
- Standardized Video-Based eFAST Training, Instructor-Led Bedside eFAST Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gorkem Alper Solakoglu
eFast, Fate
Point-of-care Ultrasound Teledidactic Teaching for Prehospital Emergency Personnel
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two methods of teaching emergency medical service (EMS) providers how to use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to quickly assess critical conditions like internal bleedings.
- Conditions
- eFast, Fate, Education, Medical, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
- Trial name
- POCUS TT (NCT06824675)
- Testing
- Teledidactic Training, In-Person Hands-on Training
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
Learning
Comparison of Web- Versus Classroom-based Basic Ultrasound and Extended Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (EFAST) Training in Two European Hospitals
Study Objective: Training physicians in new skills via classroom-based teaching has inherent costs and time constraints. We sought to evaluate whether web-based didactics result in similar knowledge improvement and retention of…
- Trial name
- NCT01040767
- Testing
- Didactic training in basic ultrasound and the EFAST
- Where
- 2 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Trauma Splenic, Trauma Abdomen
The Role of Prehospital eFAST in Accelerating Time to Diagnostics or Definitive Treatment in the Emergency Department
Actual literature has demonstrated that prehospital extended focused assessment sonography for trauma (eFAST) could impact on logistic and treatment decisions such as mode of transportation and choice of hospital destination.
- Conditions
- Trauma Splenic, Trauma Abdomen, Liver Injury
- Trial name
- NCT04934384
- Testing
- prehospital extended focused assessment sonography for trauma
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 199 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Usl di Bologna
Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
Critical Analysis of the Results in the Management of Penetrating Abdominal Trauma in the Past Fifteen Years.
Penetrating abdominal trauma (PAT) incidence varies between 3,1-12,8% and it comprises a wide range of injuries with varying patterns on diagnostic imaging.
- Trial name
- PAT-HMAR (NCT06228261)
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital del Mar
Clinical Competence, Ultrasonography
Remote Guidance for eFAST Training Using a Head-Mounted Device
This study looks at the best way to remotely teach and guide doctors-in-training to perform a bedside ultrasound exam called eFAST (extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma), which is used to quickly check injured…
- Conditions
- Clinical Competence, Ultrasonography, Medical Education, Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS)
- Trial name
- Remote-eFAST (NCT07686497)
- Testing
- Standardized instructional eFAST video, Real-time audio remote expert guidance (Microsoft Teams), Head-mounted-device remote expert guidance (Arc 3, RealWear)
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Philipp Fürnstahl
Ultrasonography, Multiple Trauma
Keller Prehospital Ultrasound Study
The study is based on the premise that ultrasound is not commonly used in an ambulance. There are some departments that do deploy it into the field, but of those departments there is almost no data collected about its use.
- Conditions
- Ultrasonography, Multiple Trauma, Kidney Calculi, Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
- Trial name
- NCT01074112
- Testing
- EFAST exam, Pelvic Ultrasound, Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Keller Fire Rescue
Learning Outcome, Training Efficiency
App-guided Training in eFAST Ultrasound
This study aims to investigate the cost-effectiveness of app-based self-directed ultrasound training compared to self-directed training with written handouts on subsequent performance on simulated patient cases and theoretical…
- Trial name
- NCT02156921
- Testing
- App-based training
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Hemoperitoneum, Ascites
Free Fluid Detection With Telementored eFAST
This feasibility study will evaluate the accuracy of telementored eFAST (Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma) in detecting abdominal free fluid in patients who have recently undergone liver surgery.
- Conditions
- Hemoperitoneum, Ascites, Intra-Abdominal Fluid Collection, Postoperative Complications
- Trial name
- NCT06594562
- Testing
- Telementored eFAST
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 34 people
- Sponsor
- Oslo University Hospital
eFast Diagnosis Performance in Guiding First Aid Resuscitation and Hemostasis
eFast Diagnosis Performance in Guiding First Aid Resuscitation
A lesion work-up associating clinical examination, extended focused ultrasound (eFAST including abdominal ultrasound [right upper, left upper, and suprapubic quadrant], bilateral anterior and lateral pleuropulmonary ultrasound…
- Trial name
- eFAST Decision (NCT03699670)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 510 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble