Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Shriners Hospitals for Children

Code:

NCT00583882

Conditions

Burns

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Routine change of central venous catheters

Study Details

Brief summary:

This project proposes to answer the following questions:

To determine the incidence of infection with three primary schedules of central venous catheter exchange in pediatric burn patients and to determine the regimen that will minimize infectious risk in children with burns.

The scientific knowledge to be acquired through this project is of likely benefit to the care of children with orthopaedic problems, spinal cord injuries or burns as follows:

The intention is to improve the outcomes in burned children by minimizing one of the most frequent causes of infection in the burn intensive care unit, those from central venous catheters. Decreasing infections will decrease morbidity, decrease length of stay, decrease costs, and decrease mortality in burned children

Conditions

Burns

Study ID

NCT00583882

Start date

Jul, 2006

Status verified date

Dec, 2007

Completion date

Jul, 2009

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2009

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Burn patient with central venous catheter

Exclusion Criteria:

  • none

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

other: 1

Change every 6 days, rewire every 6 days

other: 2

New site every 6 days

other: 3

New site every 12 days

Interventions

Routine change of central venous catheters

Changeing CVCs on a regular basis to decrease infection rate.

Primary outcome measure

  • CVC related blood stream infections. [ Time Frame: patient discharge/CVC removal ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California

Recruiting

Sacramento, California, United States, 95817

Contacts

Michael S O'Mara, MD

916-452-2050momara@shrinenet.org

More Information

Sponsor

Shriners Hospitals for Children

Last update posted

Jan 2, 2008

Last verified

Dec, 2007

Keywords

  • Central Venous Catheter
  • Guidewire
  • Burn

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Shriners Hospitals for Children on 2008-01-02.