Are EMS Personnel Prepared to Identify and Decompression of Tension Pneumothorax

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Tension Pneumothorax
• Interventions: Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression

• Registration Number: NCT02709122
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Warsaw

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-02
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-22
• Status Verified: 2016-03
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-03-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-03-09
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-15
• Last Update Posted: 2016-03-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

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

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
With Tension pneumothorax	ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression	evaluation of the patient with the existing tension pneumothorax during a simulated CPR - breathing
Without Tension pneumothorax	ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression	evaluation of the patient without the existing tension pneumothorax during a simulated CPR - breathing

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
physiological parameter	intraoperative	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

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
duration of the procedure	intraoperative	The time starts from the moment of finding of pneumothorax and ends after its proper decompression
Procedure of Pneumothorax decompression	intraoperative	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.
Ease-of-use assessed on a visual analog scale	1 day	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)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Emergency Medicine; 🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovia, Poland