Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01597336
Treatment of Abdominal Abscesses With or Without Fibrinolysis
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 92 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 17 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The objective of this study is to evaluate the utility of fibrinolysis when draining an abdominal abscess as defined by length of stay after drainage.
Detailed description
The hypothesis is that fibrinolysis of a abscess will shorten hospital stay compared to drainage alone.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Tissue plasminogen activator abscess flush | Thirteen ml of 10% tPA in saline at time of drain and twice daily thereafter. |
| PROCEDURE | Saline flush of abscess | Thirteen ml of saline is used to flush abscess at time of drain placement and twice daily thereafter. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-06-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-01-01
- Completion
- 2014-05-01
- First posted
- 2012-05-14
- Last updated
- 2015-02-04
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01597336. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.