None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Most hospitals re-site peripheral intravenous catheters in adults every 72-96 hours, based on current Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines. This is at odds with regimes for children, and critically ill patients, where cannulas are only re-sited when clinically indicated. Recent prospective surveillance studies have demonstrated the safety of longer dwell times but these observations have not been validated in adults, using randomised controlled trial methodology. The primary aim of the present study is to compare the rates of peripheral catheter-related local infection, phlebitis and obstruction between two groups of patients - those having routine catheter changes every 72 hours and those having catheter changes only when clinically indicated.
Interventions
Intervention: Cannula re-sited when clinically indicated
Sponsors
Joan Webster
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. they are inpatients at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. 2. They are scheduled or expected to have a peripheral venous catheter indwelling for at least 4 days.
Exclusion criteria
1. Patients with an existing bloodstream infection 2. Those receiving immunosupressive treatment.
Outcome results
None listed