Ultrasound Guided Arterial Puncture

Odense University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arterial Puncture

Treatments: Procedure: Ultrasound guided arterial puncture; Procedure: Conventional arterial puncture technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01660724

Mulvarp2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate whether the routine use of ultrasound guided arterial puncture can increase the proportion of patients who only needs one puncture attempt in order to successfully extract enough blood to make an arterial blood gas analysis, when ultrasound guided arterial puncture is compared to conventional arterial puncture technique.

Enrollment: 238 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient admitted or treated in the acute emergency department
• Indication for a arterial blood gas analysis, according to the physician responsible for the patient's hospital stay / treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Patient age < 16 years

Trial design

238 participants in 2 patient groups

Ultrasound guided arterial puncture

Experimental group

Description:

Patients randomised to the this arm has arterial puncture performed using simultaneously ultrasound in order to guide the passage of the syringe from the patient's skin to the artery

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound guided arterial puncture

Conventional arterial puncture technique

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients randomised to the active comparator arm has arterial puncture performed using the conventional technique

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional arterial puncture technique