Are EMS Personnel Prepared to Identify and Decompression of Tension Pneumothorax

Are EMS Personnel Prepared to Identify and Decompression of Tension Pneumothorax: A Randomized, Crossover Manikin Trial

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

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Tension Pneumothorax
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 80
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Poland
  • Masovia
    • Warsaw, Masovia, Poland, 02-005
      • Recruiting
      • Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Emergency Medicine

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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 Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: With Tension pneumothorax; evaluation of the patient with the existing tension pneumothorax during a simulated CPR - breathing	Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression; pneumothorax decompression in case it is found in accordance with the actually recommendations
Experimental: Without Tension pneumothorax; evaluation of the patient without the existing tension pneumothorax during a simulated CPR - breathing	Device: ThoraQuik atraumatic set for pneumothorax decompression; pneumothorax decompression in case it is found in accordance with the actually recommendations

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
physiological parameter	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	intraoperative

Secondary Outcome Measures

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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Medical University of Warsaw

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 22, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 9, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): March 15, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 15, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 9, 2016
• Last Verified: March 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pleural Diseases; Pneumothorax
• Other Study ID Numbers: 02.010.1MR

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided