Ultrasound Guidance for Intravenous Cannulation in Emergency Department Patients.

• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT00692549
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 60
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 2
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 29.9

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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).

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Difficult IV Access	Device: ultrasound	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 60 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation in Emergency Department Patients With Difficult IV Access: a Randomized Trial.
• Study Start Date: Jun 1, 2005
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Aug 1, 2005
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2005

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Ultrasound use of ultrasound	Device: ultrasound
No Intervention: no ultrasound no ultrasound

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Number of IV Attempts []

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Time to placement of IV catheter []

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of California	San Francisco	California	United States	94143

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of California, San Francisco

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00692549
• Other Study ID Numbers: RandomizedIVUS
• First Posted: Jun 6, 2008
• Last Update Posted: Jun 6, 2008
• Last Verified: Jun 1, 2008

• Keywords provided by , ,: ultrasound; iv access; Patients with difficult iv access in emergency departments.
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Emergencies

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jun 6, 2008