NCT01660724

Ultrasound Guided Arterial Puncture

Ultrasound Guided Arterial Puncture: a Prospective, Blinded, Randomised Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 238 (actual)
• Sponsor: Odense University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate whether the routine use of ultrasound guided arterial puncture can increase the proportion of patients who only needs one puncture attempt in order to successfully extract enough blood to make an arterial blood gas analysis, when ultrasound guided arterial puncture is compared to conventional arterial puncture technique.

Conditions

• Arterial Puncture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ultrasound guided arterial puncture	Arterial puncture is performed using simultaneously ultrasound in order to guide the passage of the syringe from the patient's skin to the artery
PROCEDURE	Conventional arterial puncture technique	Arterial puncture is performed using the conventional technique

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-08-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2012-08-09
• Last updated: 2013-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark