Point of Care Echocardiography Versus Chest Radiography for the Assessment of Central Venous Catheter Placement

University of Göttingen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Care; Emergency Medicine; Central Venous Catheterization; Ultrasound

Treatments: Device: Central venous catheter placement; Procedure: Point of care echocardiography; Procedure: Chest radiography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02661607

1/3/14

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective study to compare the use of point of care echocardiography versus routine chest radiography for the assessment of central venous catheter placement.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who require central venous catheterization in critical care environments (ICU, IMC)
• patients (or legal guardian) who provide written informed consents
• patients aged 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• patients who are unable/unwilling to give informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Point of care echocardiography after central venous catheter

Other group

Description:

Point of care echocardiography plus chest radiography

Treatment:

Procedure: Chest radiography

Procedure: Point of care echocardiography

Device: Central venous catheter placement