Are EMS Personnel Prepared to Identify and Decompression of Tension Pneumothorax

Tension Pneumothorax Clinical Trial

Official title:

Are EMS Personnel Prepared to Identify and Decompression of Tension Pneumothorax: A Randomized, Crossover Manikin Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02709122
• Other study ID #: 02.010.1MR
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 22, 2016
• Last updated: March 9, 2016
• Start date: February 2016
• Est. completion date: March 2016

Study information

• Verified date: March 2016
• Source: Medical University of Warsaw
• Contact: Lukasz Szarpak, PhD
• Phone: +48500186225
• Email: lukasz.szarpak[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Poland: Ministry of Science and Higher Education
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aims to determine the level of knowledge and skills to recognize and decompression of tension pneumothorax

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: March 2016
• Est. primary completion date: March 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• give voluntary consent to participate in the study

• maximum 1 year of work experience in medicine

• paramedics, nurses, physicians

Exclusion Criteria:

• not meet the above criteria

• wrist or low back diseases

• pregnancy

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pneumothorax
• Tension Pneumothorax

Intervention

Device:
• ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression
pneumothorax decompression in case it is found in accordance with the actually recommendations

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Poland	Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Emergency Medicine	Warsaw	Masovia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical University of Warsaw

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Poland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	physiological parameter	study correctness diagnose of pneumothorax by listening to it with a stethoscope and palpation method. The sounds will be issued by the software of manikin. Correct interpretation of the physiological parameters will be recorded in the survey questionnaire	intraoperative	No
Secondary	Procedure of Pneumothorax decompression	Pneumothorax decompression should be in the 2-3 intercostal space at the upper edge of the rib. subject to evaluation will place the introduction of the cannula.	intraoperative	No
Secondary	duration of the procedure	The time starts from the moment of finding of pneumothorax and ends after its proper decompression	intraoperative	No
Secondary	Ease-of-use assessed on a visual analog scale	To access subjective opinion about the difficulty of pneumothorax decompression, participants were asked to rate it on a visual analog scale (VAS) with a score from 1 (extremely easy) to 10 (extremely difficult)	1 day	No