The use of the laryngeal tube versus the endotracheal tube in out-of hospital cardiac arrest and their effects on arterial blood gas analysis

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management; Cardiac arrest; Circulatory System

• Registration Number: ISRCTN54937993
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna (Austria)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-09-09
• Last Update Posted: 19 December 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1400

Inclusion Criteria

1. Adult patients with an age of >18 years
2. Patients with witnessed OHCA of presumed cardiac origin (determined by the emergency physician)
3. Cardiac arrest patients with ongoing chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Exclusion Criteria

1. Standardized Lund University Cardiac Arrest System (LUCAS, Physiocontrol, 22370 Lund Sweden) mechanical chest compressions not applied before randomization
2. Traumatic OHCA:
2.1. Cardiac arrest due to exsanguination, strangulation, hanging or drowning
2.2. Cardiac arrest due to presumed intracranial hemorrhage
2.3. Cardiac arrest due to respiratory failure
2.4. Patients with an Allow-natural-death- (AND) or Do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) order or patients with a terminal illness
2.5 Known or clinically apparent pregnancy
2.6. Airway device has been introduced before the emergency physician has arrived at the scene
2.7 Already established tracheostomy e.g. coniotomy
2.8. Upper airway obstruction due to a foreign body or massive pharyngeal swelling e.g. edema for example due to an allergic reaction
2.9. Ward of the state / prisoner

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary outcome is defined as arterial pCO2 measured within 10 minutes of establishing the secure airway