Multicenter Infection Surveillance Study Following Open Heart Surgery
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2012-09-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
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.