Recruiting

IV Push & IV Piggyback

Sponsor:

University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

Code:

NCT03360617

Conditions

Infection

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Syringe IV Push over 2-3 minutes

Piggyback over 30 minutes

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study compares whether or not a safety difference exists between delivering antibiotics via IV push or IV piggyback method.

Conditions

Infection

Study ID

NCT03360617

Start date

Oct 18, 2017

Status verified date

Nov, 2017

Completion date

Dec, 2018

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct, 2018

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 18 or older
  • Patients who present to the adult ED in whom IV aztreonam, cefazolin, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, cefepime, ertapenem, or meropenem is ordered by the treating physician

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Non-English speaking patient
  • Attending provider excludes patient
  • Unable to consent
  • Prisoner
  • Allergy to any beta-lactam antibiotic

Study Design

Enrollment

220 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Syringe Arm

IV antibiotics will be delivered by syringe IV push over 2-3 minutes

sham comparator: Piggyback Arm

IV antibiotics will be delivered by IV piggyback over 30 minutes

Interventions

Syringe IV Push over 2-3 minutes

IV antibiotics will be administered by Syringe IV Push over 2-3 minutes

Piggyback over 30 minutes

IV antibiotics will be administered by IV Piggyback over 30 minutes.

Primary outcome measure

  • Difference in number of adverse reactions at 90 minutes from time 0 [ Time Frame: From the time of administration (time 0) to 90 minutes ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Wesley J Forred, RN

702-466-7801wesley.forred@umcsn.com

Yili Gan, MS

702-383-7336yili.gan@umcsn.com

Locations

University Medical Center of Southen Nevada

Recruiting

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89102

Contacts

Wesley J Forred, RN

702-224-7124wesley.forred@umcsn.com

Yili Gan, MA

702-383-7336yili.gan@umcsn.com

More Information

Sponsor

University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

Last update posted

Dec 4, 2017

Last verified

Nov, 2017

Keywords

  • IV
  • Intravenous
  • IV Push
  • Piggyback
  • Antibiotics
  • Beta Lactam
  • Infection

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University Medical Center of Southern Nevada on 2017-12-04.