Pediatric Fast Fluid Trial 2 (PFFT2)

McMaster Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fluid Therapy; Pediatrics; Shock; Resuscitation

Treatments: Procedure: Disconnect-Reconnect Technique; Procedure: Push-Pull technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01774214

12-358

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine which of two commonly used methods of manual pediatric fluid resuscitation (The "Push-Pull Technique" vs. the "Disconnect-Reconnect Technique") allows for the most rapid administration of normal saline when this is urgently required.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Health Care Providers working or training at McMaster Children's Hospital, including staff nurses, staff physicians, postgraduate medical trainees, nursing students, and medical students
• may be asked to perform manual fluid resuscitation as part of their clinical care activities

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to understand English
• Limited manual dexterity, specifically resulting in an inability to perform manual fluid resuscitation involving syringes
• Have acted in a physically strenuous capacity that may result in significant hand fatigue in the 30 minutes immediately prior to performance of the intervention. Where this is the only criteria limiting subject participation, rescheduling of an alternate testing time will be permitted.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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16 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Experimental group

Description:

As this is a crossover trial, the study arms denote the order in which the two interventions are performed by the subject. In Arm A, subjects will perform the "Push-Pull Technique" of manual fluid resuscitation first, followed by the "Disconnect-Reconnect Technique" second. A washout period of at least 30 minutes between each of the two interventions will be observed.

Treatment:

Procedure: Push-Pull technique

Procedure: Disconnect-Reconnect Technique

B

Experimental group

Description:

As this is a crossover trial, the study arms denote the order in which the two interventions are performed by the subject. In Arm B, subjects will perform the "Disconnect-Reconnect Technique" of manual fluid resuscitation first, followed by the "Push-Pull Technique" second. A washout period of at least 30 minutes between each of the two interventions will be observed.

Treatment:

Procedure: Push-Pull technique

Procedure: Disconnect-Reconnect Technique