Site Selection of Short Peripheral Venous Catheters (SPECIAL)

Zhengzhou University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Short Peripheral Venous Catheter

Treatments: Device: short peripheral venous catheter

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03290573

FAHZU-2017-016

Details and patient eligibility

About

Up to 90% of catheters fail before therapy is complete. Improved dwell time of intravenous catheters for even small increments of time would further reduce the number of insertions, staff workloads, and costs. In this study, the investigators investigated whether short peripheral venous catheter site of insertion influence the dwell time.

Enrollment: 1,517 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age >18 years
• Expected duration of infusion therapy by short peripheral intravenous catheters >7 days
• Give written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• The peripheral venous catheter was inserted in emergency room or in emergency circumstances
• Bloodstream infection
• Had a peripheral venous catheter already in situ at the baseline
• Altered mental state

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,517 participants in 2 patient groups

Dorsum of hand group

Active Comparator group

Description:

short peripheral venous catheter place in the dorsum of the hand

Treatment:

Device: short peripheral venous catheter

Forearm group

Experimental group

Description:

short peripheral venous catheter place in the forearm

Treatment:

Device: short peripheral venous catheter