Saline Against Lactated Ringers or Plasmalyte in the Emergency Department

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Critical Illness, Acute Kidney Injury

In brief

This study will be a cluster-randomized, single-center trial comparing 0.9% saline (normal saline) vs physiologically-balanced crystalloid fluids (Lactated Ringers or Plasmalyte A) for intravenous fluid administration in the emergency department.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02614040

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

14000

Starts

2016-01-01

Expected to finish

2017-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2017-09-15

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patient in the Vanderbilt Adult Emergency Department
• Felt by treating clinician to require intravenous isotonic crystalloid
• Felt by treating clinician to require inpatient hospital admission

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18 years

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center Adult Emergency Department — Nashville, Tennessee, 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.