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Filter by:To examine if adding educational digital video disk to routine education can reduce parental uncertainty and anxiety more if their children undergo congenital heart disease catheterization and when catheterization or post- catheterization complications occur. We want to know, compared to only routine education, if adding digital video disk could decrease parental uncertainty or anxiety more or not.
In this study, the investigators will investigate how patients' radial artery diameters change according to sex, age, height, weight and body mass index by measuring radial artery diameter using ultrasonography. The correlation of Allen test with doppler ultrasonography will also be evaluated.
The aim of the study was to investigate the incidence of glove perforation in cannulation of blood vessels (CBV) during resuscitation and compare perforation rates between single and double-gloves.
TegaCHG is a multicentric randomized study aimed at evaluating the possibility that the use of TegaDerm CHG dressing may reduce the incidence of catheter related blood stream infections (CRBSI). It implies the comparison between the incidence of CRBSI in patients with central venous catheter dressed with TegaDerm without chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and with CHG. The primary endpoint is the occurrence of CRBSI and the secondary endpoints are: catheter colonization (growth of microbes from the culture of catheter tip, > 15 CFU according to semi-quantitative method or > 1000 CFU according to quantitative method); incidence of catheter exit site infection; occurrence of catheter related infections/sepsis or other severe infection-related complications; safety profile evaluation: occurrence of hypersensitivity to the dressing on the basis of local objectivity (erythema, edema, other) or on that of patient symptoms (itch, burning sensation); relating to the device performance: incidence of high/medium/low dressing edge lift, ability to visualize the catheter insertion site, easiness of removal, easiness of dressing application; incidence of unscheduled dressing change. The study hypothesis implies that the use of slow release device containing chlorhexidine may decrease the incidence of CRBSI. This has already been showed for chlorhexidine impregnated sponges. Scope of the study is to verify if this property is also true for TegaDerm CHG,which is a new chlorhexidine-releasing dressing in which the medication is directly released by an integrated transparent gel pad, so that the catheter exit site remains visible and easy to inspect without removing the dressing.
The purpose of this study is to prevent catheter-related infections in newborn infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This study will compare the effectiveness of daily chlorhexidine versus isopropyl alcohol in preventing the growth of microbes in catheters.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the VeinViewer® near infrared device to facilitate the placement of intravenous catheters in children who require intravenous cannulation in the pediatric emergency department. This clinical protocol is designed to determine whether using the VeinViewer increases the ease and efficiency of IV cannulation (as perceived by the operator), decreases the time to effective cannulation, decreases the number of sticks and extravasations, and decreases the child's and the parents perception of the pain of IV cannulation.