Ultrasound Guided Port-A-Cath Isertion in Cancer Patients

Omar Mokhtar Hussein

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Device: Port-A-Cath

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04103021

Ultrasound PAC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Port-A-Cath is a totally implanted central venous access system and one of the most frequently used systems for administration of chemotherapies in oncological patients .

The currently used techniques for placement of totally implantable venous access devices involve the open insertion by cut down technique, or percutaneous puncture of the central vein either by anatomical landmarks or image guided approach by using ultrasound guidance which is increasingly being preferred over the traditional anatomical landmark due to its low complication rate and high technical success rate; as this technique enables the direct visualization of needle entrance and advancement into the target vein

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cancer patients
• Indicated for receiving long term chemotherapy
• Accepted coagulation profile.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe uncorrectable coagulopathy.
• Prior incidence of central vein thrombosis.
• Patients with active infection.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Port-a-cath

Experimental group

Description:

Ultrasound guided Port-a-cath insertion

Treatment:

Device: Port-A-Cath