Incisions for Cardiac Surgery

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Diseases

In brief

The purpose is to evaluate the investigators' length of incisions based on patient weight, operative times, hospital lengths of stay, pain medicine requirements, complications and costs. These data will lead to a new minimally invasive standard of care without a reduction in outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00229892

Run by

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

People needed

90

Starts

2005-02-01

Expected to finish

2006-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-11-18

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children who have undergone cardiac surgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• Surgery before November 1, 2004
• Exclusion Criteria;
• those who do not fall under the above inclusion criteria

Where it is running

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston — Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.