NCT07541768Recruiting
Training Medical Residents in the Use of the Venous Excess UltraSound (VExUS) Score for Bedside Volume Assessment.
Training Medical Residents in the Use of the Venous Excess UltraSound (VExUS) Score for Bedside Volume Assessment: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This randomized controlled trial evaluates the effectiveness of two training approaches (in-person versus remote) for teaching medical residents to apply the Venous Excess Ultrasound (VExUS) score for bedside volume assessment in patients with acute heart failure. Resident performance will be compared to that of expert physicians certified in abdominal and duplex sonography.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 23 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 31 Mar 2026
- Start date
- Mar 2026
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT07541768
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 23
- From Mar 2026 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Prior vascular/duplex training
Other
- SGUM certification in abdominal ultrasound
- Advanced duplex ultrasound experience
Who the study is looking for
- Medical residents in general internal medicine
- Basic ultrasound skills (POCUS component 1 or ≥200 scans)
- Working at study site during study period
Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inselspital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bern | Switzerland | Recruiting |
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