The Effect of Two Different Tourniquet Techniques on Peripheral IV Access Success Rates

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tourniquet

Treatments: Device: blood pressure cuff; Device: disposable elastic tourniquet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02389725

14-007501

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the success rates of two different tourniquets that are used when placing an IV.

Enrollment: 121 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Emergency Department patients
• 18 years old or older
• who receive peripheral IV access

Exclusion criteria

• Patients under the age of 18
• prison inmates
• pregnant patients
• patients who are unable to give informed consent
• critically ill patients who need emergent IV access as defined by the Emergency Medicine consultant of record for the patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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121 participants in 2 patient groups

disposable elastic tourniquet

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: disposable elastic tourniquet

manual blood pressure cuff

Active Comparator group

Description:

manual blood pressure cuff inflated to 150 milliliters mercury (mmHg)

Treatment:

Device: blood pressure cuff