Are EMS Personnel Prepared to Identify and Decompression of Tension Pneumothorax

Medical University of Warsaw

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Tension Pneumothorax

Treatments: Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02709122

02.010.1MR

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to determine the level of knowledge and skills to recognize and decompression of tension pneumothorax

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• give voluntary consent to participate in the study
• maximum 1 year of work experience in medicine
• paramedics, nurses, physicians

Exclusion criteria

• not meet the above criteria
• wrist or low back diseases
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

With Tension pneumothorax

Experimental group

Description:

evaluation of the patient with the existing tension pneumothorax during a simulated CPR - breathing

Treatment:

Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression

Without Tension pneumothorax

Experimental group

Description:

evaluation of the patient without the existing tension pneumothorax during a simulated CPR - breathing

Treatment:

Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression