Portable Rapid Imaging for Medical Emergencies
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Patient Satisfaction, Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging
In brief
This study will compare the time it takes to scan a patient in the emergency department with a portable MRI when compared to a conventional MRI. Participants will be randomized to receive a portable MRI plus standard of care (SOC) vs SOC. Investigators will look at time to beginning of scan for both.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06930534
- Run by
- Yale University
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2025-04-21
- Expected to finish
- 2025-12-03
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-06-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male or female ≥ 18 years of age at presentation to Yale New Haven Hospital Adult ED
- Order to receive conventional brain MRI imaging originating in the YNHH Adult ED
You may not qualify if…
- Lack of assent from treating physician for inclusion in this protocol.
- Contraindications to 1.5T MRI evaluation, including:
- Cardiac Pacemaker or defibrillator
- Aneurysm clip
- Implants or devices attached to the body in the chest or above, such as:
- Nerve stimulator
- Deep brain stimulator
- Programmable shunt
- Stent
- Pain pump
- Artificial extremity
- Implants in the ears (hearing aid or cochlear implant
- Any shrapnel, pellets, bullets, metallic fragments, or other metallic foreign body above the chest
- Metallic joints, rods, screws, or other orthopedic implants in or above the chest
- Braces, dentures, removable teeth, or dental expanders that cannot be removed.
- Body piercings in or above the chest that cannot be removed.
- MRI-incompatible Tracheostomy tube or Swan Ganz catheter in place
- Status Epilepticus or anyone previously seizing deemed by the physician not to be suitable for pMRI
Where it is running
- Yale New Haven Health Emergency Department — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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