Fluoroscopy Guided Femoral Arterial Access

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Vascular Access

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare the use of fluoroscopic guidance, (a commonly used X-ray technique), with the traditional approach, (where the doctors feel for the strongest pulse), to obtain access to the blood vessel in the groin. These two methods are being compared to assess which is faster, safer and more often allows your physician to use an "arterial closure device," a small suture or plug applied at the end of the angiogram where the needle enters your blood vessel if he/she chooses.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00222430

Run by

University of Oklahoma

People needed

990

Starts

2005-03-01

Expected to finish

2006-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-03-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 and over.
• Patients undergoing elective or urgent left heart cath from the femoral approach.
• Willingness to participate and sign the consent form.

You may not qualify if…

• Access from site other than the common femoral artery.
• Creatinine >= 3.0mg/dl.
• Graft in the common femoral artery or other surgeries at that site that might have changed the anatomy of the groin.
• Unable or refusal to sign a consent form.
• Patients from the Department of Corrections.
• Pregnant Women
• Undetectable femoral artery pulse.
• Patients undergoing emergent cardiac catheterization for ST elevation MI or unstable ACS.

Where it is running

• University of Oklahoma Medical Center — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

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