Comparison of Two Resuscitative Thoracotomy Techniques

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Conditions studied: Emergencies, Trauma, Procedural Training, Thoracotomy

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT04242160
Run by
Brooke Army Medical Center
People needed
15
Starts
2018-11-19
Expected to finish
2019-03-27
Last updated by the study team
2020-01-27

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Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

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Where it is running

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