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Ultrasound-guided Femoral Arterial Puncture for Interventional Neuro-radiology in Children (FAP-ECHO)

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Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild

Status

Completed

Conditions

Retrograde Femoral Catheterism

Treatments

Device: Ultrasound guided femoral puncture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT02878915
RBC_2014-34

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using ultrasound to guide vascular catheterism in children is highly recommended for central venous access. It has been proven that central venous line is inserted faster, with fewer attempts and complications. Its interest in central arterial line insertion is less obvious. It seems to have benefits in adults, both for radial and femoral arterial insertion. But there is no study assessing the interest of ultrasound guided arterial puncture in children,.

Full description

The use of ultrasound to guide vascular catheterization in children is strongly recommended for central venous vascular access by several international learned societies. In fact, studies have found a reduction in the time it takes to install the central venous line, in the number of attempts and in complications.The benefit of ultrasound to guide catheterization of the arterial network is less documented.

In children, there is an inventory of the traditional approach guided by palpation, in children in intensive care (11). The analysis of 77 femoral puncture attempts in 74 children was carried out. Arterial cannulation was successful in 73 of 77 cases (95%), but only in 60% of cases at the first attempt. Ultrasound guidance appears beneficial in adults for both arterial sites, radial and femoral. On the other hand, in children, unlike radial catheterization, there is no study evaluating the contribution of ultrasound guidance for femoral catheterization.

Enrollment

149 patients

Sex

All

Ages

Under 15 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • requirement of retrograde femoral arterial catheterism

Exclusion criteria

  • none

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

149 participants in 2 patient groups

Ultrasound guided femoral puncture
Active Comparator group
Description:
Ultrasound guided femoral puncture
Treatment:
Device: Ultrasound guided femoral puncture
Palpation guided femoral puncture
No Intervention group
Description:
Palpation guided femoral puncture

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Amélie Yavchitz, MD; Raphaël Blanc, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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