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Resuscitation Table Height for Face-mask Ventilation in Infants

NCT06254651 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2024-04-08

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Summary

Positive pressure ventilation (PPV) is the most important intervention in neonatal resuscitation. During PPV, it is important to hold the face-mask with care, as applying excessive pressure could cause injury to the infant, while insufficient pressure could be a contributor of mask leak and reduced effective ventilation. Application of positive pressure to face structures may trigger a vagally mediated reflex via the trigeminal nerve that innervates the skin of the face leading to apnoea and a decrease in heart rate (TCR, trigeminal-cardiac reflex).

The force exerted by providers during neonatal ventilation to improve mask seal might result in pressure lesions and the elicitation of the trigeminal-cardiac reflex. The height of the resuscitation could influence the forces applied to the face and the quality of the procedure. Information about the applied forces in relation to the height of the resuscitation table is unknown.

Conditions

  • Asphyxia
  • Resuscitation
  • Newborn Morbidity

Interventions

OTHER

High resuscitation table

Participants will be invited to administer face-mask ventilation setting the table height to the operator's xiphoid process in a neonatal manikin.

OTHER

Low resuscitation table

Participants will be invited to administer face-mask ventilation setting the table height to the operator's superior anterior iliac spines in a neonatal manikin.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Padova

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-02-12
Primary Completion
2024-02-15
Completion
2024-02-15

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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