Evaluation of a new vessel imaging system to support venipuncture in children.
- Conditions
- Vessel visualization, Venipuncture, VascuLuminator, bloedafname, bloedvaten, infrarood
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON25144
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU)
- Brief Summary
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- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 2000
Inclusion Criteria
All consecutive patients aged less than 18 years, referred to the phlebotomy station of a pediatric university hospital for a blood withdrawal.
Exclusion Criteria
Blood withdrawals performed by a cappillary puncture instead of a venipuncture.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The main study parameter is the percentage of procedures in which more than one puncture is required for successful or venipuncture (i.e. failure rate). A second main parameter is the number of patients in which the VascuLuminator is used during the weeks it is available.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Pain perception by the patient during the puncture will be measured by the FLACC (faces, legs, activity, cry and consolability) scale;<br /><br>2. Patient characteristics, i.e. skin color and age, are measured to specify in which type of patients the VascuLuminator is mainly used.