Blue Protocol and Eko Artificial Intelligence Are Best (BEA-BEST)

Description

This is an observational study that will be enrolling University of Louisville patients who present to the Emergency Department in Acute Respiratory Failure. This study will be to determine if the addition of Eko AI-assisted lung auscultation examination to a standard of care Pulmonary POCUS + assists with acute respiratory failure diagnosis.

Conditions

Acute Respiratory Failure

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Study overview

This is an observational study that will be enrolling University of Louisville patients who present to the Emergency Department in Acute Respiratory Failure. This study will be to determine if the addition of Eko AI-assisted lung auscultation examination to a standard of care Pulmonary POCUS + assists with acute respiratory failure diagnosis.

Blue Protocol and Eko Artificial Intelligence Are Best (BEA-BEST)

Blue Protocol and Eko Artificial Intelligence Are Best (BEA-BEST)

Condition
Acute Respiratory Failure
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Louisville

University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Adults aged 18 years or older presenting to the ED or admitted to the hospital within 12 hours of enrollment
  • * Acute respiratory failure defined as new onset shortness of breath initiated within the last 7 days, and new or increasing need for oxygen therapy
  • * The patient or patient's legal health care proxy consents to participation
  • * Patients with trauma as the cause of ARF
  • * Patients with pneumothorax as the cause of ARF
  • * Inability to perform pulmonary POCUS or lung auscultation (e.g. dressing on the chest)
  • * Unwilling or unable to complete the minimum of 12 lung sound stethoscope recordings.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 100 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Louisville,

Rodrigo Cavallazzi, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Louisville

Study Record Dates

2024-08-30