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NCT02970409
Heparin Versus Saline in Peripheral Venous Catheter
NA trial testing saline in Catheter-Related Infections in 354 participants. Completed in 30 October 2017.
30 October 2017
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | prevention |
| Enrollment | 354 |
| Start date | 17 October 2015 |
| Primary completion | 30 October 2017 |
| Estimated completion | 30 October 2017 |
| Sites | 1 location across Spain |
Drugs / interventions tested
- saline
- Heparin (HEPARIN) — full drug profile →
Conditions studied
- Catheter-Related Infections — all drugs for Catheter-Related Infections →
Sponsor
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Catheter-Related Infections. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
A clinical, prospective. controlled and randomized study with patients with a peripheral venous catheter. Patients will be randomized to either receive heparin or saline. The investigators will monitored the clinical out come to further evaluate catheter colonization rate, phlebitis rate, days of hospital stay, antimicrobial costs, and adverse effects.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Randomized clinical trial analyzing maintenance of peripheral venous catheters in an internal medicine unit: Heparin vs. saline.
Pérez-Granda MJ, Bouza E, Pinilla B, Cruces R, et al · · 2020 · cited 10× · PMID 31905205 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0226251
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02970409 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon
- Last refreshed: 20 December 2018
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