Difficult Intravenous Access Perception: Difficult IV Access - Assessment of Patient Understanding

Completed

• Conditions: Understanding Emergency Room Procedures
• Interventions: Other: Survey

• Registration Number: NCT01929304
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief Summary

Aim: Patient Perception: This aim broadly intends to use traditional script versus a brief video education vignette to determine understanding and preferences among general emergency department patients of rescue access techniques. A challenge of emergency care is providing patient education surrounding procedures in a standardized and patient-oriented manner. This data would provide insight on a patient's understanding of the risks and benefits of rescue access, assess patient preference, and potentially influence what rescue technique is employed in the future. This information may also give us insight onto why DIVA patients might refuse randomization.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-08-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-22
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-27
• Primary Completion: 2016-07
• Study Completion: 2016-07
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-02
• Last Update Posted: 2023-10-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1180

Inclusion Criteria

• greater than or equal to 18 years of age
• fluent in English
• hemodynamically stable emergency department patient

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Exclusion Criteria

• history of or current status of difficult intravenous access

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Text	Survey	Patients in this group will read a single-page printed information sheet in English.
Video	Survey	Patients in this group will be shown an informational video, narrated in English.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient Understanding	Baseline	Assess patients' understanding of and preferences regarding emergency department procedures: ultrasound-guided IV access and intra-osseous access.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States