Immobilization During Peripheral Venous Catheter Placement

Madrid Health Service

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatrics; Immobilization

Treatments: Procedure: Elbow joint immobilization; Procedure: Arm restraint without elbow immobilization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07182994

Immobilization catheter

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: To determine the most effective type of upper limb immobilization in the cannulation of a peripheral venous line in the pediatric emergency department.

Methods: Randomized clinical trial with 322 patients conducted in a tertiary pediatric emergency. The impact of two types of restraints (immobilization of the elbow joint versus arm restraint, without immobilization of the elbow joint) on the success of the technique was analyzed. Multivariate analysis was used to analyze the impact of other variables (weight, age, movements, pain) on the success of the technique.

Full description

A study will be conducted in a Spanish tertiary hospital to assess the holding technique for peripheral venous catheterization in pediatric patients presenting to the pediatric emergency department. The nursing staff will be responsible for implementing the study protocol, data collection, and subsequent analysis.

Enrollment: 322 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pediatric patients at emergency department that need a peripheral venous line

Exclusion criteria

• Critically ill patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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322 participants in 2 patient groups

elbow joint immobilization

Experimental group

Description:

Pediatric patients undergo cannulation of a peripheral venous line with immobilization of the elbow joint

Treatment:

Procedure: Elbow joint immobilization

arm restraint without immobilization of the elbow joint

Active Comparator group

Description:

Pediatric patients undergo cannulation of a peripheral venous line with arm restraint, but the elbow joint is not immobilized.

Treatment:

Procedure: Arm restraint without elbow immobilization