Clinical trials: Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
Blunt Abdominal Trauma, Abdominal Injuries
Evaluation of the Blunt Abdominal Trauma Severity Score (BATSS) in Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) is a leading cause of trauma-related morbidity and mortality, commonly caused by motor vehicle collisions, falls, and assaults.
- Conditions
- Blunt Abdominal Trauma, Abdominal Injuries, Intra-Abdominal Injury
- Trial name
- NCT07803211
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
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
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
Diagnostic Abdominal Ultrasonography, Trauma Injury
Transducer Selection in the Speed and Quality of Image Acquisition in FAST Exams
The Focused Assessment of Sonography for Trauma (FAST) is a rapid point-of-care ultrasound exam performed on blunt and penetrating trauma patients who are too critically injured to be transported to a CT scanner.
- Trial name
- NCT04333680
- Testing
- Focused Assessment of Sonography for Trauma Exam
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
Thoracoabdominal Trauma, Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
Comparing Use of a Prehospital Ultrasound System and Standard Prehospital Care in Thoracoabdominal Trauma
The NanoMaxx Ultrasound System (SonoSite) in connection with the RP-Xpress (InTouch Technologies) provides a means of transmitting ultrasound images, video, and audio to a remote location in real-time.
- Conditions
- Thoracoabdominal Trauma, Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST), NanoMaxx Ultrasound System (SonoSite), RP-Xpress (InTouch Technologies)
- Trial name
- FAST-01 (NCT02198885)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- University of Saskatchewan
Trauma
FAST Learning Methods
Training paramedics in new skills via classroom-based teaching has inherent costs and time constraints. The investigators sought to evaluate whether web-based didactics result in similar knowledge improvement and retention of…
- Trial name
- FAST (NCT02289911)
- Testing
- Didactic training in the FAST
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Institute of Rescue Research and Education