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Multicenter Infection Surveillance Study Following Open Heart Surgery

NCT00673712 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 647

Last updated 2018-01-19

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Continuous Sternal Block

Elastomeric Pump for Continuous Infusion of Local Anesthetic

DRUG

Opioid based analgesia

Opioid Analgesic agents delivered by: PCA on demand mode IV injections PRN IM injections PRN Oral PRN

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Halyard Health

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Ali Husain, MD · The Cleveland Clinic

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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