Placement of Peripheral Venous Catheters Under Echo Guidance in a Post-emergency Medical Service (KatECHO)

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Catheterization, Peripheral; Hospital Units; Echography

Treatments: Device: ultrasound guidance and therapeutic communication

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04856826

38RC19.419

Details and patient eligibility

About

Compare the number of attempts to place a peripheral venous catheter in the group of patients hospitalized in the post-emergency unit and benefiting from echo guidance and therapeutic communication, to the group of patients hospitalized on the post-emergency unit using traditional technique.

Enrollment: 276 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalized in the post-emergency unit
• Requiring the placement of a venous catheter in the post-emergency unit
• Affiliation to social security or benefiting from such a scheme
• Informed and written consent signed

Exclusion criteria

• Protected person (art. L1121-5 to L1121-8 of the CSP)
• Patient included in another interventional study
• Patient already included for a first catheter placement in the post-emergency unit.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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276 participants in 2 patient groups

echo guidance

Experimental group

Description:

insertion of a peripheral venous catheter with ultrasound guidance and therapeutic communication

Treatment:

Device: ultrasound guidance and therapeutic communication

conventional

No Intervention group

Description:

insertion of a peripheral venous catheter conventionally