Trial reportJournal of ultrasound2024
Utility of tele-guidance for point-of-care ultrasound: a single center prospective diagnostic study.
Trial report in Journal of ultrasound, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic Review of Commercially Available Clinical CMUT-Based Systems for Use in Medical Ultrasound Imaging: Products, Applications, and Performance.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundPoint-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) improves diagnostic accuracy and expedites lifesaving procedures. Remote areas disproportionately underuse ultrasound (US) due to a dearth of US trained professionals, imaging tools, and lack of quality assurance. Handheld US probes have been approved for diagnostic imaging but there have been limited studies examining their tele-guidance features. This study investigates whether physician tele-guidance improved ultrasound image acquisition by untrained scanners.
methodsTo determine the effectiveness of tele-guidance for ultrasound image acquisition, 30 participants (15 in each study arm: experimental and control) with no ultrasound or medical experience gathered images of the heart, right kidney, and gallbladder of a standardized patient using a handheld ultrasound probe (Butterfly iQ +). All participants watched a standardized ultrasound tutorial video and were randomized into the control or experimental group. A physician assisted the experimental group using ultrasound probe's tele-guidance feature while the control group received no assistance. Time to image acquisition was recorded for both groups, and the images were graded by 3 blinded radiologists using the RACE tool to determine image and diagnostic quality.
resultsThere was evidence that mean imaging time was greater in the control group for the heart, right kidney, and gallbladder (p < 0.0001, all; Cohen's DL: 2.0, 1.7, 3.0, respectively). Similarly, there was evidence that the predicted mean image quality for the heart, right kidney, and gallbladder was higher for the experimental group compared to the control group (3.46 versus 1.86, 4.49 versus 1.58, and 3.93 versus 1.5, respectively; p < 0.0001, all). There was also evidence that the diagnostic quality of images had a statistically higher predicted probability of meaningful interpretation for the experimental group for pericardial fluid, intraperitoneal fluid, and acute cholecystitis (p = 0.003, p < 0.0001, p < 0.0001, respectively).
conclusionsTele-guidance improves time to image acquisition and clinical applicability of ultrasound images obtained by untrained scanners.
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