Effect of Education of Health Care Workers on the Maintenance of Venous Access Devices

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

400 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-10-01

Study Completion Date

2021-04-30

Brief Summary

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In intensive care units (ICU), critically ill patients require various venous access devices for fluid resuscitation, drug therapy, or renal replacement therapy (RRT). These include peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC), specialized venous ports like central venous catheters (CVCs), and hemodialysis ports. The investigators plan to do this pre- and post-intervention study to know the effect of intensive training and education of HCW (doctors and nurses) on the condition of venous access devices in critically ill patients.

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Detailed Description

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Phase 1, pre-intervention: The first twelve weeks will include 25 random visits to main ICU and point observations of all venous access devices under parameters like condition of dressing, connectors and documentation. This will also include the comparison of incidence of CLABSI in the pre and post intervention phase.

Phase 2, intervention: Next four weeks will be an intervention in the form of intensive training and education of the HCW (doctors and nurses). The intensive training will be in the form of an online presentation in which the investigators would have videos on care and maintenance of venous access devices, and the importance of documentation of days of insertion and change of dressing.

Phase 3, post-intervention: Another twelve weeks, post-intervention, again 25 random visits will be done to collect point observations about the same parameters of venous access devices and documentation as done in phase 1.

Statistical analysis: Each of these point observation parameters (for central or peripheral venous access) will be finally categorized as appropriate/inappropriate as per guidelines for best practice.

The compiled data from pre and post intervention phases would be compared. All the categorical parameters (appropriate/inappropriate) will be compared using chi-square test. All the quantitative parameters (e.g. incidence of CLABSI) will be compared using a paired t-test

Conditions

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Vascular Access Devices

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Pre-intervention

baseline data prior to training and education of health care workers. Intervention: intensive training and education of workers for maintenance of venous access devices.

No interventions assigned to this group

Post intervention

observation after training and education of health care workers

Training and education

Intervention Type OTHER

Training and education of health care workers in the form of online seminars and bed side demonstration of care and maintenance of venous access devices

Interventions

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Training and education

Training and education of health care workers in the form of online seminars and bed side demonstration of care and maintenance of venous access devices

Intervention Type OTHER