Midline catheter (10 cm) versus long peripheral intravenous catheter (6.4 cm): Randomized clinical trial protocol with economic analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Midline catheters have stood out in the last decade in Europe and North America as peripheral venous access devices with fewer complications and greater durability. However, its cost may be an obstacle to the adoption of this technology in public institutions in Brazil, which use long peripheral intravenous catheters for the same purpose.

Materials and methods

This is a randomized clinical trial protocol, registered on the ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05884294 platform, which will be conducted with two parallel, controlled, single-center, blinded groups for outcome analysis, where the groups are allocated in a 1:1 ratio, with patients over 18 years of age, admitted to clinical units of a public university hospital in Brazil who have difficult venous access defined by t

SUBMITTER: Teixeira TO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12021174 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature