Venous Site for Central Catheterization (3SITES)

Caen University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Care; ICU; Catheterization

Treatments: Procedure: Randomization of the site for catheterization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01479153

ID RCB 2010-A00813-36

Details and patient eligibility

About

Central venous catheters are needed in the critical care setting to administer drugs. Three sites are available to gain vascular access: subclavian, internal jugular and femoral. Each site has complications, but there is no randomized controlled study which compared the 3 sites.

The investigators hypothesis is that subclavian catheterization reduces the risk of major complications compared to internal jugular or femoral.

Enrollment: 3,471 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient admitted in the Intensive Care Unit
• Requiring Central Venous Catheterization

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with only one site available

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3,471 participants in 3 patient groups

Subclavian catheterization

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Randomization of the site for catheterization

Internal Jugular catheterization

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Randomization of the site for catheterization

Femoral Catheterization

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Randomization of the site for catheterization