Impact of Availability of Showerpatch for Patients With Intravenous Catheters (ISIC)

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Neoplasms; Cystic Fibrosis; Pulmonary Hypertension

Treatments: Device: Shower patch IV catheter protection; Device: Conventional IV catheter protection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02324868

S57372

FC13145773 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Venous catheters are necessary for the treatment of many patients. Showering with a venous catheter is often prohibited due to the infection risk when the insertion site becomes wet. Therefore these patients are challenged to keep the catheter insertion site dry and always covered with a dressing. Washing themselves is often impossible without assistance of a nurse or significant other. For patients with a catheter connected to an infusion line, it is even more difficult. Showerpatch is a newly developed dressing that safeguards the insertion site of an IV catheter from water during bathing activities. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the impact of the availability of Showerpatch by comparing the outcomes in patients regarding the patient's autonomy in bathing activities, the material use and the time needed from caregivers in home care. Additionally qualitative data on patient's bathing activities and the use of Showerpatch will be collected.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• able to read and speak Dutch and to fill out a web-based questionnaire
• patients with an IV catheter (peripheral catheter, midline, peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC), Central Venous catheter (CVC), tunnelled catheter or implantable port) with an expected dwell time IV therapy of at least 14 days and with or without a prospect of discharge to the home setting with the IV catheter in situ in the foreseen study period
• physically able to wash themselves
• with access to the internet

Exclusion criteria

• Bedridden patients
• Patients who have already participated in an earlier stage of the ISIC study
• Patients with more than one lumen of the catheter continuously connected to an infusion line

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

Shower patch IV catheter protection

Experimental group

Description:

Newly developed waterproof catheter dressing may be used for bathing activities

Treatment:

Device: Shower patch IV catheter protection

Conventional IV catheter protection

Other group

Description:

No specific dressing will be provided to the patient to protect the catheter entry site during bathing activities.

Treatment:

Device: Conventional IV catheter protection