NCT02668471

U/S Guided vs. Traditional Palpation for Radial Artery Cannulation

Ultrasound-guided Compared With Traditional Palpation Radial Artery Cannulation in Critically Ill Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ramathibodi Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of ultrasound- guided with the traditional palpation radial artery cannulation in critically ill children.

Detailed description

Arterial catheterization is often performed in critically ill patients for continuous hemodynamic monitoring and blood sampling. However, insertion of radial artery catheter with traditional palpation may be technically challenging, particularly in pediatric patients. There are few published studies on the use of ultrasound guidance for radial-artery catheter placement and mostly they were elective surgery children which received inhalation or deep sedative medication. Recently no setting published in pediatric intensive care unit.

Conditions

• Critical Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ultrasound	ultrasound at radial site and measure the size and depth of radial artery and perform radial artery cannulation
PROCEDURE	traditional method	Radial artery catheters will be placed by the palpation technique only.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-30
• Completion: 2016-08-30
• First posted: 2016-01-29
• Last updated: 2017-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand