Ultrasound Guidance for Radial Arterial Blood Sampling

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Ultrasonography; Radial Artery
• Interventions: Procedure: Artery puncture with ultrasound guidance; Procedure: Artery puncture without ultrasound guidance

• Registration Number: NCT01189188
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Brief Summary

The investigators aim to determine if ultrasound guidance results in improved technique when drawing blood via a radial artery puncture.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-08
• Study First Submitted: 2010-08-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-08-25
• Study First Posted: 2010-08-26
• Primary Completion: 2010-10
• Study Completion: 2010-10
• Status Verified: 2015-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-03-25
• Last Update Posted: 2015-03-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 74

Inclusion Criteria

• The subject has signed consent
• The subject is affiliated with a social security system
• Health status necessitates an arterial blood sample for diagnostic, prognostic or therapeutic reasons

Exclusion Criteria

• The subject is participating in another study
• The subject is in a study exclusion period determined by a previous study
• The subject is under guardianship
• The subject refuses to sign consent
• Impossible to correctly inform the patient
• The patient is pregnant, breastfeeding, or parturient
• Allergies to one or more of the following: methyl, propylbenzoate, propylene glycol, chlorhexidine gluconate
• Contraindication for an arterial puncture (at the radial artery)
• Cardio-respiratory arrest

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
With ultrasound guidance	Artery puncture with ultrasound guidance	In this group of patients, ultrasound guidance will be used when drawing blood from the radial artery.
Without ultrasound guidance	Artery puncture without ultrasound guidance	In this group of patients, no ultrasound guidance will be used when drawing blood from the radial artery.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Is only one puncture attempt necessary to attain the radial artery? yes/no	maximum two hours

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of puncture attempts required to attain the radial artery	maximum two hous
Visual Analog Scale score for pain felt by the patient (0.0 to 10.0)	Maximum two hours
Visual Analog Scale score for patient satisfaction (0.0 to 10.0)	Maximum two hours
Visual Analog Scale score for health professional satisfaction (0.0 to 10.)	Maximum two hours
Presence / absence of a hematoma at the site of puncture	two hours
Presence / absence of other complications	Two hours

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes; 🇫🇷 Nîmes, France