Clinical trialNCT00852488CompletedInterventional

Medium-term Venous Access in Congenital Heart Surgery

SponsorVanderbilt University Medical CenterEnrollment50Congenital Heart Surgery

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Summary

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This study is designed to evaluate medium-term central venous catheter placement in infants undergoing complex cardiac surgery using a new technique. This technique involves placement of the catheter into the inferior vena cava through a subcutaneous tunnel and through a tunnel between pericardium and diaphragm.

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Investigators

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David P Bichell, M.D.
Vanderbilt University
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Monroe Carell Jr. Children'S Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Mar 2009
Primary completion: 31 Jan 2010
Completion: 31 Jan 2010
Last update posted: 1 May 2017
Registered enrollment: 50
Registry id: NCT00852488

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.