: A Prospective Study Investigating the Use of the Eko CORE and Eko DUO Electronic Stethoscopes in Pediatric Patients.

Completed

Conditions studied: Heart Murmurs

In brief

The Eko CORE and DUO stethoscopes are FDA approved electronic devices which have the capacity to record heart sounds. This study will utilize these devices to see if they can differentiate between pathologic and innocent heart murmurs in children.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04317521

Run by

Nemours Children's Clinic

People needed

315

Starts

2020-10-24

Expected to finish

2022-03-11

Last updated by the study team

2022-03-15

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients aged 0 to 17 years, who are able to read and speak English, and/or with parents or legal guardians who are able to read and speak English
• New patients referred to the Nemours Cardiac Center for a heart murmur, chest pain, syncope, or arrhythmia. This could include children with suspected murmurs (but ultimately found to have no murmur by a cardiologist), innocent murmurs, and pathologic murmurs.
• Patients with previously diagnosed heart condition, if they have not had any corrective surgeries and had a detectable murmur at their last clinic visit (for pathological and innocent murmurs) or had no detectable murmur at their last clinic visit (for no murmurs).

You may not qualify if…

• Patients aged 18 and over
• Patients and/or parents who are unable to read or speak English
• Patients who have had corrective heart surgery for a heart defect
• Auscultation cannot be performed properly at all locations
• Patients not wishing to participate in study recordings

Where it is running

• Nemours Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children — Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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