Ultrasound Guidance for Radial Arterial Blood Sampling

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Radial Artery; Ultrasonography

Treatments: Procedure: Artery puncture with ultrasound guidance; Procedure: Artery puncture without ultrasound guidance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01189188

2010-A00714-35 (Other Identifier)

LOCAL/2010/RGG-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to determine if ultrasound guidance results in improved technique when drawing blood via a radial artery puncture.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The subject has signed consent
• The subject is affiliated with a social security system
• Health status necessitates an arterial blood sample for diagnostic, prognostic or therapeutic reasons

Exclusion criteria

• The subject is participating in another study
• The subject is in a study exclusion period determined by a previous study
• The subject is under guardianship
• The subject refuses to sign consent
• Impossible to correctly inform the patient
• The patient is pregnant, breastfeeding, or parturient
• Allergies to one or more of the following: methyl, propylbenzoate, propylene glycol, chlorhexidine gluconate
• Contraindication for an arterial puncture (at the radial artery)
• Cardio-respiratory arrest

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

With ultrasound guidance

Experimental group

Description:

In this group of patients, ultrasound guidance will be used when drawing blood from the radial artery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Artery puncture with ultrasound guidance

Without ultrasound guidance

Active Comparator group

Description:

In this group of patients, no ultrasound guidance will be used when drawing blood from the radial artery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Artery puncture without ultrasound guidance