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Monitoring of Intubation and Ventilation During Resuscitation

NCT00204217 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2007-08-27

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Summary

Airway control and ventilation is vital during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cardiac arrest. Endotracheal intubation is the gold standard for airway control, but several studies have shown high rates of unrecognized placements of the tube in the esophagus instead of in the airway out-of-hospital. This is lethal. There are no failproof technique for recognising such mistakes clinically in the cardiac arrest situation. Changes on the air volume in the lungs with ventilation changes the impedance (resistance to alternating current) through the thorax. This impedance is already measured routinely by the defibrillators used during CPR. We propose that we can measure ventilation volumes and also discover failed intubations by monitoring this impedance during CPR with the possibility of giving feedback on both to the rescuers.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

DEVICE

endotracheal intubation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Laerdal Medical

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Ullevaal University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Health Region East, Norway

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Stavanger

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Oslo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elizabeth Dorph · Ulleval University Hospital, University of Oslo

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-09-30
Completion
2007-04-30

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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