None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
We aim to determine whether a purse string suture to a patients groin is more or less effective than manual pressure in preventing complications such as bleeding and bruising following ablation procedures. We intend to randomise patients in a 1 to 1 fashion to either use of a purse string suture or manual pressure over the femoral vein to achieve haemostasis following ablation procedures. We intend to randomise patients in this fashion who need anticoagulation for their procedure with the hypothesis that the purse string suture is a more efficient and more effective way to provide groin haemostasis for patients post ablation.
Interventions
The intervention is a purse string suture (1.0 proline suture) tied over the femoral venous puncture site that pulls the skin and subcutaneous tissues together to achieve pressure and haemostasis. Participants will receive the intervention once following their ablation procedure by the cardiologist who performed the ablation. It will be in place for 4 hours (at which time it is cut at the skin and pulled out) and patients will be followed up for 24 hours following their procedure.
Sponsors
Dr. Nick Jackson
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Prevention
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
15 Years to 100 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients undergoing cardiac ablation procedures at John Hunter Hospital and Lake Macquarie Private Hospitals who require anticoagulation for the procedure. Patients undergoing ablation procedures at these hospitals who would ordinarily require the use of a size 11 French sheath in the femoral vein who may or may not also require anticoagulation.
Exclusion criteria
Patients unable to give informed consent.
Outcome results
None listed