Clinical Trial: Whole-Body Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department After a Fall

U.S., Oct. 22 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07886164) titled 'Whole-Body Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department After a Fall' on Oct. 14.

Brief Summary: Falls are one of the most common reasons older adults visit the emergency department. In many older patients, a fall that looks "mechanical" is actually caused by an underlying medical problem such as syncope, heart disease, dehydration or blood clots, and the history is often unreliable. This single-center prospective study will evaluate whether a structured whole-body point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) examination performed at the bedside changes how emergency physicians manage patients aged 65 years an...