An interventional study of ultrasound in Difficult IV Access, sponsored by University of California, San Francisco. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2008-06-06.
Sponsored by University of California, San Francisco · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
A randomized trial of the use of ultrasound by emergency physicians in the placement of intravenous catheters in emergency patients who are found to have difficult intravenous access (defined as two failed attempts by nursing staff).
1,692 studies on the registry are indexed under Emergencies; 333 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 60 is below the median of 145 across 931 interventional studies indexed under Emergencies.
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Exclusion Criteria:
use of ultrasound
Device: ultrasound
no ultrasound
Number of IV Attempts
Time to placement of IV catheter
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