Superior success rate of intracavitary electrocardiogram guidance for peripherally inserted central catheter placement in patients with cancer : A randomized open-label controlled multicenter study

BACKGROUND: Intracavitary electrocardiogram (IC ECG) guidance emerges as a new technique for peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) placement and demonstrates many potential advantages in recent observational studies.

AIMS: To determine whether IC ECG-guided PICCs provide more accurate positioning of catheter tips compared to conventional anatomical landmarks in patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

METHODS: In this multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled study (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02409589), a total of 1,007 adult patients were assigned to receive either IC ECG guidance (n = 500) or anatomical landmark guidance (n = 507) for PICC positioning. The confirmative catheter tip positioning x-ray data were centrally interpreted by independent radiologists. All reported analyses in the overall population were performed on an intention-to-treat basis. Analyses of pre-specified subgroups and a selected large subpopulation were conducted to explore consistency and accuracy.

RESULTS: In the IC ECG-guided group, the first-attempt success rate was 89.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 86.5% to 91.9%), which was significantly higher than 77.4% (95% CI, 73.7% to 81.0%) in the anatomical landmark group (P < 0.0001). This trend of superiority of IC ECG guidance was consistently noted in almost all prespecified patient subgroups and two selected large subpopulations, even when using optimal target rates for measurement. In contrast, the superiority nearly disappeared when PICCs were used via the left instead of right arms (interaction P-value = 0.021). No catheter-related adverse events were reported during the PICC intra-procedures in either group.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicated that the IC ECG-guided method had a more favorable positioning accuracy versus traditional anatomical landmarks for PICC placement in adult patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Furthermore, there were no significant safety concerns reported for catheterization using the two techniques.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

PloS one - 12(2017), 3 vom: 09., Seite e0171630

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yuan, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Li, Rongmei [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Aifeng [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yuling [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiancui [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yiqun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Zhenzhu [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chuanying [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Minyi [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Weiwei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiangyu [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Comparative Study
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Randomized Controlled Trial

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Date Completed 06.09.2017

Date Revised 10.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02409589

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0171630

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM269692665