Ultrasound-guided Axillary Artery vs Femoral Artery Cannulation. (AxFemArt)

Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Opolu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness

Treatments: Procedure: Real-time ultrasound-guided in-plane infraclavicular axillary artery cannulation.; Procedure: Real-time ultrasound-guided out-of-plane femoral artery cannulation.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02801825

AxFemArt

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main purpose of the study is to compare two ultrasound-guided arterial cannulation procedures: in-plane infraclavicular axillary artery cannulation and out-of-plane femoral artery cannulation.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

mechanically ventilated critically ill patients with indications for artery cannulation:

• in whom radial artery cannulation is unable to perform or
• in order to conduct hemodynamic monitoring using transpulmonary thermodilution

Exclusion criteria

• age less than 18 years
• trauma and hematoma at the catheterization site
• clinically significant coagulation disorders
• infection at the catheterization site
• lack of patients or closest relatives contents
• precedent surgery operation into the femoral and axillary arteries
• clinically significant ischemia of the limb at the cannulation side

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Axillary artery.

Experimental group

Description:

Cannulation of the axillary artery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Real-time ultrasound-guided in-plane infraclavicular axillary artery cannulation.

Femoral artery.

Experimental group

Description:

Cannulation of the femoral artery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Real-time ultrasound-guided out-of-plane femoral artery cannulation.