NCT00557154

Ultrasound Assisted Peripheral Venous Access in Young Children

Ultrasound Assisted Peripheral Venous Access in Young Children: A Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Davis · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn how the use of ultrasound helps with the placement of an intravenous (i.v.) catheter in young children.

Detailed description

In an academic pediatric Emergency Depratment (ED), we performed a randomized clinical trial of children \< 7 years of age, who required i.v. access and who had failed the first i.v. attempt. We randomized patients to either continued standard i.v. attempts or ultrasound-assisted attempts. Clinicians involved in the study received one hour of training in ultrasound localization of peripheral veins. In the ultrasound group, vein localization was performed by an ED physician who marked the skin overlying the target vessel. Intravenous cannulation attempts were then immediately performed by a pediatric ED nurse who relied on the skin mark for vessel location. We allowed for technique cross-over after two failed i.v. attempts. We recorded success rate and location of access attempts.

Conditions

• Catheterization, Peripheral

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ultrasound	ultrasound used to identify target vein
DEVICE	standard technique for venipuncture	routine equipment

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-08-01
• Completion: 2004-07-01
• First posted: 2007-11-12
• Last updated: 2017-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States