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- Clinical Trial NCT05466227
Modified Valsalva Maneuver: A Realist Evaluation
Improving the Care Trajectory for Patients With Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia in the Emergency Department by Implementing the Modified Valsalva Maneuver: A Realist Evaluation
Cardiac arrhythmia, specifically paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), accounts for a substantial proportion of emergency medical services resources utilization. Restoring a normal sinus rhythm (reconversion) should be done quickly and effectively. Reconversion requires increasing the atrioventricular node's refractoriness, which can be achieved by vagal maneuvers, pharmacological agents, or electrical cardioversion.
The Valsalva Maneuver (VM) is a commonly used non-invasive reconversion method. It increases myocardial refractoriness by increasing intrathoracic pressure for a brief period, thus stimulating baroreceptor activity in the aortic arch and carotid bodies, resulting in increased parasympathetic (vagus nerve) tone. The effectiveness of conventional vagal maneuvers in terminating SVT, when correctly performed, shows a considerable variation ranging from 19.4% to 54.3%. To improve the effectiveness of the Valsalva Maneuver, the Modified Valsalva Maneuver (MVM) was introduced. While the standard VM is performed when the patient is in a sitting position (45°-90°), the modified VM involves having the patient sit up straight and perform a forced expiration for about 15 seconds, after which the patient is brought into a supine position with the legs raised (45°) for another 15 seconds. This modification should increase relaxation, phase venous return, and vagal stimulation. A recent meta-analysis demonstrated a significantly higher success rate for reconversion to sinus rhythm when using the MVM compared to the standard VM in patients with an SVT (Odds Ratio = 4.36; 95 percent c.i. 3.30 to 5.76; P < .001). More adverse events were reported in the MVM group, although this difference is not significant (Risk Ratio = 1.48; 95 percent c.i. 0.91 to 2.42; P = .11). The available evidence suggests that medication use was lower in the MVM group than in the standard VM group. However, medication use could not be generalized across the different studies. None of the included studies in this review showed a significant difference in length of stay in the emergency department (ED). Hence, the gain of implementing MVM is a higher rate of success with non-invasive reconversion methods. While the available evidence is highly suggestive of supporting the use of the MVM compared to the standard VM in the treatment of adult patients with SVT, implementation seems difficult.
Current evaluations, such as the 'gold-standard' randomised controlled trial (RCT) design, rarely adequately or even explicitly address the context-specific drivers behind implementation outcomes and their relationship to the underlying programme theory, making it difficult to interpret their findings in light of other programmes in different settings. As a result, few evaluation strategies are widely accepted as appropriate. The net benefit of interventions and understanding how variable outcomes are achieved remains empirically uncertain. Therefore, it is essential to develop comprehensive, rigorous, and practical methods to evaluate people-centred quality improvement programmes, inform the selection of effective and efficient interventions, and facilitate improvement and scaling-up. In evaluating such complex interventions, the Medical Research Council (MRC) argues for the importance of process evaluation in conjunction with outcome evaluation to account for variability in implementation. The MRC's process evaluation framework guides evaluators to understand the implementation processes (what is implemented and how), mechanisms of intervention (how the delivery of the intervention produces change) and contextual factors that affect implementation and outcomes.
Research question This study aimed to evaluate a quality improvement program to improve the non-invasive care for patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in the emergency department.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Hanne Gworek, MD
- Phone Number: +32474521990
- Email: hanne.gw@hotmail.com
Study Locations
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Genk, Belgium, 3600
- Recruiting
- Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
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Contact:
- Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
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Genk, Belgium, 3600
- Not yet recruiting
- Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
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Contact:
- Hanne Gworek, MD
- Phone Number: +32474521990
- Email: hanne.gw@hotmail.com
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Contact:
- Pieter Jan Van Asbroeck, MD
- Phone Number: +32497139013
- Email: pjvanasbroeck@gmail.com
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Sub-Investigator:
- Ine Bollen, MD
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Principal Investigator:
- Pieter Jan Van Asbroeck, MD
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Sub-Investigator:
- Hanne Gworek, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- All adult patients that present to the emergency department
- Only true SVT will be included.
Exclusion Criteria:
- ECG more suggestive of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter
- Age < 18 years or > 70 years
- Broad QRS, including known aberration
- Known aneurysm (aortic, intracranial or elsewhere)
- Known aortic stenosis
- Known glaucoma
- Hemodynamic instability requiring immediate electric cardioversion.
- Patients that experience an SVT in the hospital but are never admitted to the emergency department (e.g., patients in the cardiac care unit), as the MVM protocol will be only implemented in the prehospital setting and ED.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Implementing Modified Valsalva
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Modified Valsalva maneuvre:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Was Modified Valsalva maneuver used in this patient?
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Yes/No.
Was the patient's supraventricular tachycardie treated with Modified Valsalva or did they use a different treatment?
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Was there a need for the use of medication or was the Modified Valsalva maneuver sufficient?
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Length of stay in the ED
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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How long did the patient stayed in the emergency department?
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Adverse events
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Where there any adverse events correlated to the treatment used?
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Hospital admission
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Was there a need to admit the patient to the hospital?
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Patient experience
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Is it the first time you experienced this rhythm disturbance? To your knowledge, did they treat you by medication, or did they have you do a special maneuver? If they have made you do a special maneuver:
If they used medication for your rhythm disturbance:
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Staff experience
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Do you know the recently implemented protocol of modified Valsalva maneuver in the treatment of an SVT? Did you use a non-pharmacological maneuver for termination of the SVT?
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Efficiency
Time Frame: Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Was the supraventricular tachycardia terminated after the used treatment (modified valsalva, valsalva, medication)?
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Moment of treatment, no follow up. Up to 1 year since start of the study.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- Z-2022052
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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