Title |
Development and evaluation of a novel, real time mobile telesonography system in management of patients with abdominal trauma: study protocol
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Published in |
BMC Emergency Medicine, December 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-227x-12-19 |
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Authors |
Chinwe Ogedegbe, Herman Morchel, Vikki Hazelwood, William F Chaplin, Joseph Feldman |
Abstract |
Despite the use of e-FAST in management of patients with abdominal trauma, its utility in prehospital setting is not widely adopted. The goal of this study is to develop a novel portable telesonography (TS) system and evaluate the comparability of the quality of images obtained via this system among healthy volunteers who undergo e-FAST abdominal examination in a moving ambulance and at the ED. We hypothesize that: (1) real-time ultrasound images of acute trauma patients in the pre-hospital setting can be obtained and transmitted to the ED via the novel TS system; and (2) Ultrasound images transmitted to the hospital from the real-time TS system will be comparable in quality to those obtained in the ED. |
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