NCT00885300

Cloxacillin as Prevention of Double Lumen Infection in Hemodialysis Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether cloxacillin lock is effective in prevention of double lumen infection.

Detailed description

Double lumen infection is one of the causes of morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis patients. Many strategies used to prevent it and one of them is antibiotic lock. Thus we select chronic hemodialysis patients and divided them into 2 groups. One group received cloxacillin and heparin as catheter lock and the second group received only heparin lock.

Conditions

• Double Lumen Infection
• Hemodialysis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	cloxacillin	cloxacillin 100mg/ml as catheter lock at the end of hemodialysis
DRUG	heparin	heparin 1000iu/ml as catheter lock at the end of hemodialysis

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-07-01
• Completion: 2008-09-01
• First posted: 2009-04-21
• Last updated: 2009-04-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran