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Comparison of Two Resuscitative Thoracotomy Techniques

NCT04242160 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2020-01-27

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Summary

Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is a life saving procedure for patients who have suffered cardiac arrest or are at significant risk of cardiac arrest following significant trauma. The procedure is ideally performed by a surgeon, but in some circumstance must be performed by non-surgical specialists such as Emergency Medicine physicians. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the optimal RT technique taught to non-surgical specialists in an educational human cadaver lab. The objective was to compare time to successful completion of two different RT techniques; (1) Left Anterolateral Thoracotomy (LAT) and (2) Modified Clamshell Thoracotomy (MCT). The investigators hypothesized that the non-surgical specialist time to successful completion for the MCT would be shorter than for the LAT.

Conditions

  • Emergencies
  • Trauma
  • Procedural Training
  • Thoracotomy

Interventions

OTHER

Modified Clamshell Thoracotomy

Participants received standardized training on performing a MCT and LAT. Participants then performed the procedures on a fresh human cadaver model.

OTHER

Left Anterolateral Thoracotomy

Participants received standardized training on performing a MCT and LAT. Participants then performed the procedures on a fresh human cadaver model.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Army Institute of Surgical Research

    collaborator FED

  • United States Air Force En Route Care Research Center

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Centre for Emergency Health Sciences

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Barts & The London NHS Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • The Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London's Air Ambulance

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • US Air Force 711th Human Performance Wing

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Brooke Army Medical Center

    lead FED

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-19
Primary Completion
2019-03-27
Completion
2019-03-27

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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