Impact of VeinViewer® Vision to Guide Peripheral Venipuncture in Geriatrics (VeinGER)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Geriatric; Venipuncture

Treatments: Biological: Venous puncture in elderly patients

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03139045

PI2016_843_0030

Details and patient eligibility

About

Peripheral venipuncture is a common procedure in geriatrics. This procedure due to altered cutaneous alteration and venous capital associated with age poses problems of comfort and quality of life of elderly patients hospitalized. There is little data from the literature that highlights the difficulties of venipuncture in the context of old age. New venous visualization technologies by infrared spectroscopy (NIR) such as VeinViewer® Vision (VVV) have been developed to guide the placement of a peripheral venous (VVP) or venipuncture (PV) route.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient aged 75 years and over
• Patient hospitalized in a department of acute geriatrics, whose venipuncture was prescribed

Exclusion criteria

• Patient not affiliated to a social security scheme
• Patient under legal protection

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Venous puncture using VVV at the beginning of the procedure

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Biological: Venous puncture in elderly patients

Venous puncture without VVV

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Biological: Venous puncture in elderly patients