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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

NCT number NCT01718795
Other study ID # Prehospital LTS vs. BVM
Secondary ID
Status Terminated
Phase Phase 4
First received June 7, 2012
Last updated March 23, 2016
Start date September 2012
Est. completion date September 2015

Study information

Verified date March 2016
Source Medical University Innsbruck
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Austria: Ethikkommission
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

During CPR bag-valve mask ventilation is difficult for basically skilled rescuers. Ventilation may be inefficient or with too high pressures result in stomach inflation and aspiration. Studies suggest that with a supraglottic airway device, such as the laryngeal tube, a basically skilled rescuer may ventilate more efficient and also safer. No prehospital study has been conducted comparing laryngeal tube and bag-valve mask ventilation during CPR. Thus, this study intends to compare ventilation with laryngeal tube and bag-valve mask performed by paramedics during CPR.


Description:

During CPR bag-valve mask ventilation is difficult for basically skilled rescuers. Ventilation may be inefficient or with too high pressures result in stomach inflation and aspiration. Studies suggest that with a supraglottic airway device, such as the laryngeal tube, a basically skilled rescuer may ventilate more efficient and also safer. No prehospital study has been conducted comparing laryngeal tube and bag-valve mask ventilation during CPR. This study intends to compare ventilation with laryngeal tube and bag-valve mask performed by paramedics during CPR. This study may provide information if paramedics in an emergency should ventilate as they do traditionally with bag-valve mask ventilation or if they should ventilate with a laryngeal tube.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Terminated
Enrollment 78
Est. completion date September 2015
Est. primary completion date September 2015
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Cardiac arrest

Exclusion Criteria:

- Paramedic does not want to use laryngeal tube

- Physician on site before paramedic

- Foreign body airway obstruction

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment


Intervention

Device:
Bag-valve mask or laryngeal tube ventilation
Interventions are either "Bag-valve mask (BVM)" or "Laryngeal tube (LT)" ventilation during CPR

Locations

Country Name City State
Austria Medical University Innsbruck Innsbruck Tirol

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Michael Baubin, MD

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Austria, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Efficient ventilation Does chest rise clearly during CPR? Thus efficient ventilation will be assessed during CPR, which may last on average between 20 and 60min. Therefore efficient ventilation will be assessed from starting CPR at 0min to 20min or rarely 60min or longer. From start of paramedic ventilating the patient during CPR until emergency physician takes over ventilation or patient breathes again spontaneously after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) Yes
Secondary Aspiration Aspiration will be assessed 24hrs after CPR with bronchoscopy From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 1 month after enrollment of the last patient at August 30th 2014 Yes