Pilot Study Assessing Feasibility of Focused Newborn Cardiac Ultrasound by Transport Team Members to Identify Hypoxemic Congenital Heart Disease
The first 2 phases of this study have demonstrated that transport team members can use handheld US technology to obtain timely and sufficient quality cardiac images to allow for identifying and triaging of CHD in infants. This novel, resource-conscious application has the potential to streamline the care of hypoxemic newborns after undergoing protocol efficiency refinement, independent proficiency testing, and study of remote application.
Authors
- L. Clifford
- Charles McCombs
- Karen Texter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-9266)
- Samantha W. Gee
- Jonathan A. Wheeler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2693-7494)
- Delia L. Gold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9592-8351)
- Brittany L. Shutes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9960-1234)
- John P. Kovalchin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7156-5373)
- Caleb Carmin
Institutions
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (US)
- Texas Children's Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Air Medical Journal
- Published
- 2025-10-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2025.09.007
- Primary Topic
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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