Point of Care Echocardiography Versus Chest Radiography for the Assessment of Central Venous Catheter Placement

Critical Care Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Prospective Study to Compare Point of Care Echocardiography Versus Chest Radiography for the Assessment of Central Venous Catheter Placement in Critical Care Environments

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02661607
• Other study ID #: 1/3/14
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2014
• Est. completion date: April 2016

Study information

• Verified date: July 2019
• Source: University of Göttingen
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A prospective study to compare the use of point of care echocardiography versus routine chest radiography for the assessment of central venous catheter placement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: April 2016
• Est. primary completion date: January 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients who require central venous catheterization in critical care environments (ICU, IMC)

• patients (or legal guardian) who provide written informed consents

• patients aged 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients who are unable/unwilling to give informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Central Venous Catheterization
• Critical Care
• Emergencies
• Emergency Medicine
• Ultrasound

Intervention

Procedure:
• Point of care echocardiography
Point of echocardiography is performed after routine placement of central venous catheterization and compared with routine chest radiography

Device:
• Central venous catheter placement
Central venous catheter placement is performed as per local guidelines in critically ill patients

Procedure:
• Chest radiography
Routine chest radiography is performed after central venous catheter placement in critically ill patients

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	University of Göttingen	Göttingen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Göttingen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Adequate placement of the central venous catheter	Participants will be followed for the period after the intervention to assess correct placement, an expected average of 2 hours	2 hours
Secondary	Time needed for the intervention (bedside echocardiography)	Time of the procedure will be measured, an expected average of 5 minutes	5 Minutes
Secondary	Performance of residents as assessed by the time needed to perform the echocardiography	Time needed to perform the echocardiography will be measured with an expected average of 5 minutes	5 Minutes
Secondary	Time needed for chest radiography to be performed	Time will be measured after requesting chest radiography via telephone until chest radiographs are available for review, an expected average of 2 hours	2 hours
Secondary	Adverse Events	Patients will be followed as per local guidelines to detect complications by central venous catheter placement, usual time Frame of 24 hours (e. g. pneumothorax from cvc placement)	24 hours