Vibration Response Imaging (VRI) in Children With Acute Respiratory Symptoms

Vibration Response Imaging (VRI) in Children With Acute Respiratory Symptoms.

The VRI device may provide a complementary diagnostic tool for lung examination and aid the physician in determining whether a chest x-ray should be performed.

Study Overview

• Status: Suspended
• Conditions: Pneumonia

Detailed Description

This study is a prospective, single center study to determine the value of VRI images as an aid in determining whether a chest x ray is necessary to evaluate children presenting with acute respiratory complaints.

Study participants will be children, selected from the Emergency Department (ED), who were designated to undergo a PA and Left Lateral CXR because of acute respiratory complaints such as a new respiratory condition, acute cough, onset of shortness of breath, or fever.

Patients who meet the study inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled and will be recorded by the VRI device.

A technician will perform a CXR on the enrolled patients. The CXR and the VRI will be performed on the same day within 6 hours of each other.

VRI readers, who are blinded to the patient's CXR, history, and physical exam, will evaluate the VRI recording. The VRI reader will review the VRI images and, using the lexicon of images supplied by Deep Breeze, determine whether the VRI is normal or abnormal.

Certified radiologists will review the patient's CXR and will determine whether the CXR is normal or abnormal based solely on the CXR.

The VRI readers determination of normal or abnormal for each subject will be compared to the radiologists determination of normal or abnormal CXR for each subject.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 80

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 3 years to 18 years (ADULT, CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

A total number of 80 patients in the age range of 3-18 and consisting of both boys and girls, preferably in an equal distribution

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Subject's parent or legal guardian, is able and willing to read the Informed Consent, understands the Informed Consent, and provides written Informed Consent for the subject; if the minor child is in fact able to give consent, the minor's consent must be obtained in addition to the consent of the minor's legal guardian.
2. Boy or girl in the age range of 3-18 years.
3. Patient presented with acute respiratory complaints, acute cough, onset of shortness of breath, or fever.
4. Patient referred by ED physician and presented for CXR.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Body habitus or skin condition that might prevent the placement of the sound sensors on the back (e.g. severe scoliosis, kyphosis, chest wall deformation, skin lesion on the back or compression fracture);
2. Potentially contagious skin lesion on the back;
3. Subject has had lung surgery;
4. Subject was prescribed the CXR for monitoring or follow up of a lung condition that pre-existed the current, acute symptoms.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Deep Breeze
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Liora Kornreich, M.D, Shnider medical center; Principal Investigator: Liora Kornreich, Professor, Shnider medical center

Study record dates

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 8, 2009
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 8, 2009
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): October 9, 2009

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): August 20, 2010
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 19, 2010
• Last Verified: August 1, 2010

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: to acquire database of pneumonia cases in children
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases; Pneumonia; Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
• Other Study ID Numbers: DB048