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| Name | Class |
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| Instituto de Salud Carlos III | OTHER_GOV |
| Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Gregorio Maranon | OTHER |
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A clinical, prospective. controlled and randomized study with patients with a peripheral venous catheter. Patients will be randomized to either receive heparin or saline. The investigators will monitored the clinical out come to further evaluate catheter colonization rate, phlebitis rate, days of hospital stay, antimicrobial costs, and adverse effects.
The need of use of peripheral venous catheters and the importance of a proper management to avoid catheter colonization or phlebitis requires two possible preventive approaches: lock therapy with heparin or saline.
Heparin demonstrated its efficacy in central venous catheters, but there are still controversies of whether it is useful in peripheral venous catheters.
Objectives To compare the efficacy of heparin in peripheral venous catheters lock versus saline for the prevention of colonization and phlebitis in patients admitted to an Internal Medicine Department.
Methods: A clinical, prospective. controlled and randomized study with patients with a peripheral venous catheter.
Patients will be randomized to either receive heparin or saline. The investigators will monitored the clinical out come to further evaluate catheter colonization rate, phlebitis rate, days of hospital stay, antimicrobial costs, and adverse effects.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| heparin | Active Comparator | Catheter Lock Therapy with Heparin |
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| saline | Experimental | Catheter Lock Therapy with saline |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| saline | Device | catheter lock using saline |
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| Heparin |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| complications | prevention of colonization(superficial and tip culture) and phlebitis(visual inflammation of entrance of catheter insertion) . | Daily from catheter insertion until catheter withdraw(estimated 10 days) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| catheter related infection rate | episodes of catheter related infection against number of days of exposure to catheter | Through study completion( estimated 2 year after Last patient in) |
| adverse events(number of catheter obstructions and coagulation alterations) |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Internal Medicine Department HGU Gregorio Marañón | Madrid | 28007 | Spain |
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| ID | Term |
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| D055499 | Catheter-Related Infections |
| ID | Term |
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| D007239 | Infections |
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| Device |
catheter lock using Heparin |
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| Through study completion (2 year afterLast patient in) |