EMEPIC : Value of a Mobile Team of Cardiologist Using Echocardiography for Managing Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Overview

The aim of the study is to compare clinical management of patients with acute decompensation of heart failure, hospitalized in non cardiological ward, with the use of a mobile team including a cardiologist with portable echocardiography and standard care. The hypothesis is that a mobile team will lead to shorter hospitalization.

Full Title of Study: “Value of a Mobile Team of Cardiologist Using Echocardiography for Managing Patients With Acute Heart Failure”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: June 2010

Detailed Description

Randomized, controlled, monocentric study comparing Standard care with the care provided by a mobile team including a cardiologist with mobile echocardiography, systematic follow up à 3 days, a dietician advice in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure in a non cardiology ward on the duration of hospitalization, re-hospitalization rate à 30 days, emergency visit within 30 days, treatment at discharge, mortality within hospital stay and at 30 days.

Interventions

  • Procedure: Mobile team
    • a mobile team including a cardiologist with mobile echocardiography, systematic follow up à 3 days, a dietician advice in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure in a non cardiology ward
  • Procedure: Standard care
    • Standard care

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: 1
    • Mobile Team
  • Active Comparator: 2
    • Standard care

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Duration of hospitalization.
    • Time Frame: 30 days

Secondary Measures

  • Re-hospitalization rate à 30 days Emergency visit within 30 days Treatment at discharge Mortality within hospital stay Mortality at 30 days
    • Time Frame: 30 days

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Hospitalized for suspected heart failure – > or = 18 years Exclusion Criteria:

  • Refuses to participate

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • University Paris 7 – Denis Diderot
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Pr. Guillaume JONDEAU, University Paris 7
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Guillaume JONDEAU, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, UNIVERSITY PARIS 7

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