Overview

Multicenter Infection Surveillance Study Following Open Heart Surgery

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2012-09-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
The main goals of the study are as follows: (1) to determine the correlation between pain management using continuous infusion of local anesthetics and the incidence of pneumonia and surgical infection in cardiac surgery patients; and (2) to evaluate the relationship between hospital-acquired pneumonia and surgical infection and patient outcomes, including length of hospital stay.
Phase:
Phase 4
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Halyard Health
Treatments:
Analgesics, Opioid
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- Men and women, >18 years of age;

- Scheduled for elective cardiac surgical procedure, including coronary
revasculari-zation or valve surgery;

- Provision of informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with a prior allergic reaction or dependency to morphine, Demerol, Di-laudid,
Fentanyl, Marcaine (bupivacaine), lidocaine or Naropin (ropivacaine);

- Cardiac transplant patients

- Inability to perform follow-up assessments;

- Pre-existing infection (pneumonia or surgical site)

- Repeat of primary surgery