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Clinical Trial to Assess the Safety of Reducing the Time of Bed Rest After Cardiac Catheterization

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Coronary Artery Disease With Myocardial Infarction
Interventions
Other: Rest three hours
Other: Rest five hours
Registration Number
NCT01740856
Lead Sponsor
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Brief Summary

Reducing the rest time after diagnostic cardiac catheterization for three hours does not increase the complications concerning to the procedure, compared to the rest of five hours.

Detailed Description

Reducing the rest time after diagnostic cardiac catheterization for three hours does not increase the complications concerning to the procedure, compared to the rest of five hours. The aim of this study is to compare through a randomized clinical trial to reduce the rest time in bed for five hours after elective diagnostic cardiac catheterization, with a 6F sheath with a transfemoral approach, for a period of three hours of the occurrence of bleeding, hematoma, pseudoaneurysm and a vasovagal reaction.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
730
Inclusion Criteria
  • age equal too or above 18 years
  • patients undergoing elective diagnostic cardiac catheterization on an outpatient basis and
  • who agree to participate by reading and signing the informed consent form.
Exclusion Criteria
  • patients with restriction ambulation;
  • users of coumarin anticoagulants;
  • IMC greater than 35 kg/m2;
  • patients with hypertension (systolic PA > 180 mmHg and diastolic PA > 110 mmHg) at the end of the procedure

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Rest three hoursRest three hoursRest three hours
Rest five hoursRest five hoursRest five hours
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Safetyuntil three days

Bleeding: seen after the femoral compression after walking and after sitting down ;Hematoma, pseudoaneurysm and bruise: at the site of arterial puncture;vaso-vagal reaction. All of these will be monitoring by telephone contact at 24h, 48h and 72 hours.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

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Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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