Multicenter Infection Surveillance Study Following Open Heart Surgery

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Surgery, Pneumonia, Surgical Site Infection

In brief

The main goals of the study are as follows: (1) to determine the correlation between pain management using continuous infusion of local anesthetics and the incidence of pneumonia and surgical infection in cardiac surgery patients; and (2) to evaluate the relationship between hospital-acquired pneumonia and surgical infection and patient outcomes, including length of hospital stay.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00673712
Run by: Halyard Health
People needed: 647
Starts: 2008-04-01
Expected to finish: 2012-09-01
Last updated by the study team: 2018-01-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Men and women, >18 years of age;
Scheduled for elective cardiac surgical procedure, including coronary revasculari-zation or valve surgery;
Provision of informed consent

You may not qualify if…

Patients with a prior allergic reaction or dependency to morphine, Demerol, Di-laudid, Fentanyl, Marcaine (bupivacaine), lidocaine or Naropin (ropivacaine);
Cardiac transplant patients
Inability to perform follow-up assessments;
Pre-existing infection (pneumonia or surgical site)
Repeat of primary surgery

Where it is running

St. Vincents East — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Christianna Care Health System — Newark, Delaware, United States
University of Kentucky Medical Center — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Ochsner — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Cape Fear valley Hospital — Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States
Medcentral Hospital — Mansfield, Ohio, United States
Methodist Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States
Waukesha Medical Center — West Allis, Wisconsin, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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