Ultrasound Guidance for Intravenous Cannulation in Emergency Department Patients.

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Difficult IV Access

Treatments: Device: ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00692549

RandomizedIVUS

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized trial of the use of ultrasound by emergency physicians in the placement of intravenous catheters in emergency patients who are found to have difficult intravenous access (defined as two failed attempts by nursing staff).

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients requiring an IV in the emergency department and who have two failed attempts by nursing staff

Exclusion criteria

• emergent need for IV access

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Ultrasound

Experimental group

Description:

use of ultrasound

Treatment:

Device: ultrasound

no ultrasound

No Intervention group

Description:

no ultrasound