Prospective Evaluation of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction Interventions Among Adults and Children
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Abdominal thrust, Back blows, Chest compressions/thrusts.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Foreign Body Airway Obstruction. Basic parameters: from 3 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Canada
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Prospective Evaluation of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction Interventions Among Adults and Children: A Non-randomized Pilot Cohort Study
Overview
Foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO, choking) is a life-threatening emergency requiring time-sensitive treatment to prevent severe injury or deaths. Traditional treatments taught in first aid courses include abdominal thrusts, back blows, and chest compressions or thrusts. Currently, first aid guidelines recommend different treatments for adults, child and infants. Until recently, data on these techniques was limited to case series from the late 1900's. To further improve our knowledge of which treatment is most effective and safest for patients, this study will collect data on choking incidents in Alberta, Canada. The first phase of this project will make sure identifying and recruiting choking patients in real-time is possible so that the highest quality of data can be collected. If successful, this study will support a future project where the different choking treatments are compared in terms of their effectiveness and safety. This study will focus on adults and children over the age of 2 years.
Interventions
- Procedure Abdominal thrust
Abdominal thrust received as first intervention - Procedure Back blows
Back blows received as first intervention - Procedure Chest compressions/thrusts
Chest compressions or thrusts received as first intervention
Primary outcome measures
- Eligible patient recruitment [Time frame: Through study completion, a 6 month period]
Secondary outcome measures (6)
- Proportion of eligible patients recruited [Time frame: Through study completion, a 6 month period]
- Proportion of recruited patients with satisfactory data collection [Time frame: Through study completion, a 6 month period]
- Foreign body airway obstruction relief [Time frame: Day 1]
- Survival to acute care discharge [Time frame: From date of enrolment until the date of acute care discharge or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 3 month]
- Survival to acute care discharge with favourable neurological outcome [Time frame: From date of enrolment until the date of acute care discharge or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 3 month]
- Intervention-associated injuries [Time frame: From date of enrolment until the date of acute care discharge or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 3 month]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Adult or children (aged greater than 2 years) who experienced an out-of-hospital FBAO in Alberta, Canada
- Received a FBAO intervention while conscious by bystander or healthcare provider
- Were assessed by EMS at the time of the incident, or later attended an emergency department due to the incident
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with abnormal airway anatomy such as a tracheostomy.
- Patients who were unconscious when they received the initial FBAO intervention
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Canada · 1 center
- Virtual — Calgary
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07365137 · REB25-0419A