NCT03709394

Pre-hospital Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Venous Catheter Insertion

Two Different Techniques for Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Venous Catheter Insertion in Pre-hospital Emergency Care - Randomized Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emergency Medical Service of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates two different techniques for ultrasound guided peripheral venous catheter insertion in pre-hospital emergency care in comparison with conventional approach without any ultrasound guidance.

Detailed description

Peripheral venous catheter placement is one of the most common interventions in emergency medicine. When performed by conventional approach, the failure of the first attempt occurs up to 22 % and cannulation time exceed 2 minutes in up to 15 %. Ultrasound guidance of peripheral venous catheter (PVC) insertion may improve both. However, this approach has not been verified in the setting of pre-hospital emergency care so far.

Conditions

• Prehospital

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Full utrasound guidance	The target vein is directly identified by portable ultrasound device and the complete procedure of peripheral venous cathether insertion is controlled by ultrasound guidance in real time
PROCEDURE	Partial ultrasound guidance	The target vein is directly identified by ultrasound but the procedure of peripheral venous cathether insertion is performed conventionally, without ultrasound guidance
PROCEDURE	No ultrasound guidance	The target vein is identified and peripheral venous catheter is inserted by conventional approach without use of any guiding devices

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-05-31
• Completion: 2019-03-31
• First posted: 2018-10-17
• Last updated: 2020-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Czechia