Infant Chest Compression

Medical University of Warsaw

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Treatments: Procedure: cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03004157

Infant11/2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pediatric cardiac arrest is an uncommon but critical life-threatening event requiring effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). About 16,000 pediatric cardiac arrests occurs in the United States annually. Only 8% of the patients survive to hospital discharge and of these, up to two-thirds have neurological sequelae. Majority of pediatric cardiac arrest are below age of two and have poorer chance of survival versus older children

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• active paramedics
• voluntary consent

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• back pain
• wrist pain

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 3 patient groups

Two finger technique

Experimental group

Description:

Two finger technique TFT: the pediatric thorax is compressed with the tips of two fingers and is recommended for lone rescuer during infant CPR by international CPR guidelines

Treatment:

Procedure: cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Two thumb technique

Experimental group

Description:

Two thumb technique TTHT: the two thumbs of the rescuer are placed over the lower third of the sternum, with the fingers encircling the torso and supporting the back. This technique is recommended for two rescuers during infant CPR by international CPR guidelines

Treatment:

Procedure: cardiopulmonary resuscitation

new two-thumb technique

Experimental group

Description:

new two-thumb technique' (nTTT): this technique consists in using two thumbs directed at the angle of 90 degrees to the chest while closing the fingers of both hands in a fist

Treatment:

Procedure: cardiopulmonary resuscitation