A Prospective Trial of Ultrasound Versus Landmark Guided Central Venous Access in the Pediatric Population

Not Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT01680666

Age - N/A-18 Years Gender - All Accepting Healthy Volunteers - No

Purpose

The investigators hypothesized that, in children undergoing venous cannulation for central line placement by pediatric surgeons, ultrasound-guided cannulation leads to an increase in successful venous cannulation at first attempt compared to landmark guided cannulation.

Official Title

A Prospective Randomized Trial of Ultrasound Versus Landmark Guided Central Venous Access in Children

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

   - All patients between the ages of 0 and 18 years undergoing tunneled central venous
   line placement under general anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

   - Preoperative proof of non-patency of central veins

   - coagulopathy

   - access site surgeon

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Intervention(s):

procedure: central line placement

device: Ultrasound

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