Normal Saline Versus Heparin Intermittent Flushing for the Prevention of Occlusion in Port-a-Cath
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-12-31
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Purpose:
An evidence implementation of a randomized controlled trial for whether there is the
difference in intermittent flushing 0.9% normal saline and heparin? Design: a single-blind
randomized controlled trial
Method:
This study is based on the 5A (Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, Audit) of evidence health care
step, and design randomized controlled trial for evidence implementation.
We will include inpatients over 20 years-old adults in New Taipei City TuCheng Hospital,
Taiwan, who need administration medicine by port-a-catcher. The sample size is 192 according
to G-power software. Random allocation software has using for block randomization, would
assign to group A: flushing with 0.9% normal saline 10ml, group B: flushing with 0.9% normal
saline 20ml, and group C: flushing with heparin 100 USP/ml. SPSS 20.0 software for
statistical analysis, mean or standard deviation, one- way ANOVA would use.