Comparison of normal saline and heparinized saline for patency of IV locks in neonates
| Autor: | Alyce A. Schultz, Debra Drew, Hilary Hewitt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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medicine.medical_specialty End point Neonatal intensive care unit Heparin business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Infant Newborn Anticoagulants Sodium Chloride Catheterization Surgery law.invention Intensive Care Units Catheter Double-Blind Method Randomized controlled trial law medicine Humans Female business Saline General Nursing |
| Zdroj: | Applied Nursing Research. 15:28-34 |
| ISSN: | 0897-1897 |
| DOI: | 10.1053/apnr.2002.29520 |
| Popis: | In this randomized double-blind experiment of 49 neonatal intensive care unit patients, probable time to catheter failure was significantly longer (p =.0358) for catheters flushed with heparinized saline (median = 127) compared with those flushed with normal saline (median = 39). This is in contrast to the nonsignificant difference (p =.841) in mean scores for six heparin-flushed catheters (M = 41.5 hours, SD = 44.0) compared with 18 saline-flushed catheters (M = 30.4 hours, SD = 20.8) discontinued for reasons other than completion of treatment. We concluded that survival time analysis is necessary when evaluating results of time-dependent studies in which the end point may not be elective. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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