Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
intravenous port, port maintenancem
Brief summary
Investigators deconstructed the port that removed from patients and identified there were structural weakness, old blood clot and fibrin deposits. Investigators consider the problem may be exist in maintenance. After thoroughly examination the maintenance protocol, Investigators identified the problem and try to remodel the maintenance protocol. The Goal of this study was to testify the clinical value of standard maintenance protocol.
Detailed description
A secure and easily feasible vascular access is crucial for oncology patients because of the therapeutic need. Although intravenous port has been utilized for 3 decades, catheter-related complication still remain and had to deal with. According to investigators clinical experience, investigators summarized a standard algorithm as a recommendation for intravenous sport implantation. The complication before and after standard algorithm was 20 % and 3.5 %, respectively. However, catheter related infection and malfunction still could not be avoided. If patient was identified with these 2 complications, re-intervention is needed and cancer-related therapy has to be postpone. Investigators deconstructed the port that removed from patients and identified there were structural weakness, old blood clot and fibrin deposits. Investigators consider the problem may be exist in maintenance. After thoroughly examination the maintenance protocol, investigators identified the problem and try to remodel the maintenance protocol. The Goal of this study was to testify the clinical value of standard maintenance protocol.
Interventions
OTHERnormal saline
experimental group use normal saline sealing tube
OTHERnormal saline+heparin
normal saline+heparin(Currently, Regular used in hospital)
Sponsors
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
1. Cancer patients in need of chemotherapy 2. Newly accepted Port-A Implant 3. port maintenance:Catheter irrigation with 20 ml N/S,10 ml N/S sealing tube
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Volunteer with new Port-A inserted
Exclusion criteria
* No
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Port- A Catheter complication | 1 year | In the case of catheter-related complications, a complete biochemical and blood test will be performed on the patient. Will be tested for possible clotting factors, inflammatory index including CRP; procalcitonin; CBC / DC; PT / aPTT /Protein C/ protein S |
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed