Bedside Cranial Ultrasound for Risk-Stratified Imaging in Pediatric Acute Brain Injury
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What the trial team says
Acute brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of death and long-term disability in children. Diagnosis depends on fast neuroimaging, and head computed tomography (CT) is the bedside reference standard despite exposing the developing brain to ionizing radiation. A safe, portable, radiation-free bedside tool is needed to help decide which children need a head CT, to speed CT when injury is present, and to safely monitor injured children between scans. This study evaluates B-mode cranial point-of-care ultrasound (cPOCUS) performed through the temporal (and frontal) bone windows in children undergoing a clinically indicated head CT in the pediatric emergency department (ED) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Children's thin skulls provide adequate acoustic windows in more than 95% of cases. cPOCUS is acquired by trained research scanners within 6 hours of head CT and interpreted offline by two blinded expert readers; the radiology CT report is the diagnostic gold standard. This is a prospective observational study; cPOCUS results are not returned to the clinical team in real time and do not change clinical care.
Key facts
- Registry number
- NCT07772323
- Conditions studied
- Acute Brain Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Hydrocephalus, Stroke, Brain Neoplasm, Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain
Where it is running
This trial lists 1 site.
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Virginia
- Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
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