NCT01605292

Radial Artery Access With Ultrasound Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 698 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Radial artery access for cardiac catheterization can require multiple attempts. Multiple attempts increase the time required, patient discomfort, and the risk of arterial spasm. Ultrasound guidance has been shown in other studies to reduce the number of attempts and complications in central venous and femoral artery access. This study will test if the addition of ultrasound guidance reduces the number of attempts and time required to access the radial artery.

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ultrasound guidance	Real time ultrasound guidance using ultrasound probe covered in sterile plastic, visualizing radial artery while needle passage attempted.
PROCEDURE	Palpation	Manual palpation for localizing radial artery for inserting needle.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-12-01
• Primary completion: 2013-03-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2012-05-24
• Last updated: 2015-02-26
• Results posted: 2015-02-26

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: United States