What this means
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.
A plain-English summary is on its way. Until then, this is the start of the registry's own summary.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 65 and over
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- Whole-Body Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department After a Fall
- Trial ID
- NCT07886164 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- observational
- Conditions
- Accidental Falls, Aged, Syncope
- What is tested
- Whole-body point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
- Sponsor
- Kocaeli City Hospital
- Ages
- 65 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Oct 21, 2026 · updated Oct 21, 2026
Registry 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 and older who come to the emergency department after a ground-level fall. The main question is how often POCUS findings change the physician's working diagnosis, consultation requests, additional tests, procedures, or admission/discharge decisions. Patients will also be followed for one week for death and repeat emergency department visits.
Sites (1)
- Kocaeli City Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, İzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey (Türkiye)