EXPERIMENTAL STUDY A.R.C.O. (CANCER CAREGIVER REMOTE ASSISTANCE)TELEHEALTH HOME MEDICATION VS/OUTPATIENT MEDICATION OF CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER PICC (PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER) (ARCO)

Regina Elena Cancer Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infections

Treatments: Device: Caregiver operations with medication accessories; Device: Nurse operations with medication accessories

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT05880420

RS1518/21

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer patients need central venous access according to the different types of chemotherapy and support drugs for their treatment path. The presence of a central vascular access brings mechanical issues, thrombotic and infectious complications that can undermine the patient's health and the life of the catheter, therefore the management of venous accesses is clinically relevant. The prevention of infections remains mainly based on correct hand washing and compliance with aseptic techniques. This is a multicenter intervention study is composed by a single experimental arm (home) and a calibration arm (outpatient). The study is designed to evaluate that the complication rate recorded in the two groups are similar.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Share patient choice
• availability at the patient's home at least once a week
• availability during on line appointment time with the tutor/video

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm 1 - home group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Caregiver operations with medication accessories

Arm 2 - outpatient calibration

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Nurse operations with medication accessories