NCT01347463

Validation of the Ipsilateral Nipple as the Directional Guide for Internal Jugular Vein (IJV) Catheterization

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Traditional teaching that suggests the ipsilateral nipple as the directional guide for needle advancement during Internal Jugular Vein (IJV) catheterization has weak grounds. The investigators attempt to validate this long-standing statement.

Conditions

• Ipsilateral Nipple
• Internal Jugular Vein
• Catheterization

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	SCM triangle - ipsilateral nipple	draws the tract of the IJV using the SCM triangle head and the ipsilateral nipple

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-05-04
• Last updated: 2020-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea