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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03812185
TEE Image Quality Improvement With Our Devised Probe Cover
TEE Image Quality Improvement With Our Devised Transesophageal Echocardiography Probe Cover and Its Effect on Surgical Decision Making
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Background: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become a standard intraoperative diagnosis technique for clinical management of patients during cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. Accurate intraoperative diagnosis by TEE improves as image quality improves. Although we recently reported enhanced image quality using a TEE probe with an attached orogastric tube, its clinical significance is still unknown. Also, we are concerned about potential clinical complications including damage to the upper gastrointestinal tract due to its rough surface. Therefore, we devised a new TEE probe cover equipped with a suction catheter and ultrasound gel containing pad that functions as a cushion for preventing surrounding tissue trauma. Our long-term goal is to improve TEE image quality, which will help surgical decision-making with precise assessment. The study population will be elective cardiac cases and liver transplant cases at Henry Ford Hospital. The objective of this grant is to assess the image quality change with our newly designed TEE probe, and its clinical utility on patient care in different types of procedures.
Aim 1. To assess TEE image quality before and after pin-point suctioning with our newly designed TEE probe. We hypothesize that decreasing stomach air between the TEE probe transducer and tissue wall by pin-point suction with our newly designed TEE probe will reduce ultrasound reflection and lead to better image quality.
Aim 2. To evaluate the clinical utility of our newly designed TEE probe cover. We hypothesize our newly designed TEE probe cover will facilitate decision-making for both anesthesiologists and surgeons and it will not increase the occurrence of TEE probe related trauma.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Michigan
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Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48202
- HFHS
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria: Cardiac procedures and liver transplants which had intraoperative TEE -
Exclusion Criteria: general contraindication with TEE, apparent complications which are related to TEE.
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Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Other: TEE image before and after suctioning orogastric tube
for intraoperative TEE used cardiac or transplant cases, TEE images will be stored before and after suctioning orogastric tube which is attached to TEE probe cover.
This Arm is TEE image BEFORE suctioning.
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Suctioning orogastric tube which is atttached to TEE probe cover.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Image Quality Assessment Method#1: Difference in Likert Scale Before/After Suctioning
Time Frame: TEE image sets were acquired after general anesthesia induction (before suctioning) and after 10minutes (after suctioning), and the outcome was the difference in image quality. In 6-8 months, investigator C did the same analysis on the same images.
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Difference in image quality assessment by Likert scale before/after suctioning, by assessing quality of images stored before/after suctioning.
Investigators categorized the quality of all acquired images on a numeric scale (the higher number means higher image quality) based on each investigator's impression (1: very poor, 2: poor, 3: acceptable, 4: good, and 5: very good).
Image quality improvement was determined by increased number.
Three investigators (A, B, C) assessed the quality of all TEE image sets (i.e.
before and after suctioning) post hoc.
The acquired numeric scales were combined, and compared before and after suctioning, and calculated how much percentage of patients had improved image quality (i.e. increase in numeric scale), same quality (i.e.
same numeric scale), and worsened image quality (i.e.
decrease in numeric scale)
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TEE image sets were acquired after general anesthesia induction (before suctioning) and after 10minutes (after suctioning), and the outcome was the difference in image quality. In 6-8 months, investigator C did the same analysis on the same images.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Reproducibility of the LV FAC (Inter-observer)
Time Frame: Images were acquired after general anesthesia induction (before suctioning) and after 10minutes (after suctioning images).
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The reproducibility of the LV FAC was assessed, assuming that better image quality would yield better LV FAC reproducibility.
Three investigators (A, B, and C) assessed the quality of all TEE image sets (i.e.
before and after suctioning) post hoc.
These image sets are combined and assessment was done for each group (i.e.
before and after suctioning)
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Images were acquired after general anesthesia induction (before suctioning) and after 10minutes (after suctioning images).
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Reproducibility of the LV FAC (Intra-observer)
Time Frame: 6-8 months after initial images obtained during surgery.
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Investigator C analyzed all image sets again in 6-8 months to determine if there was intra-observer variability with the initial assessment of image quality.
All investigators were blinded to which images were obtained before or after suctioning.
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6-8 months after initial images obtained during surgery.
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Reproducibility of the RV FAC (Inter-observer)
Time Frame: Images were acquired after general anesthesia induction (before suctioning) and after 10minutes (after suctioning).
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The reproducibility of the RV FAC was assessed, assuming that better image quality would yield better RV FAC reproducibility.
Three investigators (A, B, and C) assessed the quality of all TEE image sets (i.e.
before and after suctioning) post hoc.
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Images were acquired after general anesthesia induction (before suctioning) and after 10minutes (after suctioning).
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Reproducibility of the RV FAC (Intra-observer)
Time Frame: 6-8 months after initial images obtained during surgery.
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Investigator C analyzed all image sets again in 6-8 months to determine if there was intra-observer variability with the initial assessment of image quality.
All investigators were blinded to which images were obtained before or after suctioning.
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6-8 months after initial images obtained during surgery.
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Collaborators and Investigators
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 11958
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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