A Prospective Trial of Ultrasound Versus Landmark Guided Central Venous Access in the Pediatric Population

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Need for Central Venous Access

Treatments: Device: Ultrasound; Procedure: central line placement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01680666

IRB-8943

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesized that, in children undergoing venous cannulation for central line placement by pediatric surgeons, ultrasound-guided cannulation leads to an increase in successful venous cannulation at first attempt compared to landmark guided cannulation.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients between the ages of 0 and 18 years undergoing tunneled central venous line placement under general anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

• Preoperative proof of non-patency of central veins
• coagulopathy
• access site surgeon

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

landmark guided

Active Comparator group

Description:

central line placement

Treatment:

Procedure: central line placement

ultrasound guided

Active Comparator group

Description:

central line placement

Treatment:

Device: Ultrasound

Procedure: central line placement