Central Venous Catheter Replacement Strategies in Patients With Acute Burn Injury

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Burns

In brief

This project proposes to answer the following questions: To determine the incidence of infection with three primary schedules of central venous catheter exchange in pediatric burn patients and to determine the regimen that will minimize infectious risk in children with burns. The scientific knowledge to be acquired through this project is of likely benefit to the care of children with orthopaedic problems, spinal cord injuries or burns as follows: The intention is to improve the outcomes in burned children by minimizing one of the most frequent causes of infection in the burn intensive care unit, those from central venous catheters. Decreasing infections will decrease morbidity, decrease length of stay, decrease costs, and decrease mortality in burned children

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00583882

Run by

Shriners Hospitals for Children

People needed

300

Starts

2006-07-01

Expected to finish

2009-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-01-02

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Burn patient with central venous catheter

You may not qualify if…

• none

Where it is running

• Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California — Sacramento, California, United States (enrolling)

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