Clinical Trial: Assessing the Effect of Staff Education on Unused Peripheral Venous Catheter Rates in Emergency Departments.

U.S., March 5 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07449455) titled 'Assessing the Effect of Staff Education on Unused Peripheral Venous Catheter Rates in Emergency Departments.' on Feb. 27.

Brief Summary: The placement of peripheral venous catheters (PVC) is a common procedure, estimated at 25 million per year in France according to SF2H in 2005. However, this procedure exposes patients to complications (hematoma, phlebitis, edema, sepsis, hemolysis of samples), is time-consuming, and costly. There is a significant proportion of PVCs placed unnecessarily, estimated between 23.7% and 60.7% according to studies. A study conducted at the Saint-Antoine Emergency Department showed that the best indicator...