Multicenter Infection Surveillance Study Following Open Heart Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The main goals of the study are as follows: (1) to determine the correlation between pain management using continuous infusion of local anesthetics and the incidence of pneumonia and surgical infection in cardiac surgery patients; and (2) to evaluate the relationship between hospital-acquired pneumonia and surgical infection and patient outcomes, including length of hospital stay.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Halyard Health
• Treatments: Analgesics, Opioid

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men and women, >18 years of age;

• Scheduled for elective cardiac surgical procedure, including coronary revasculari-zation or valve surgery;

• Provision of informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with a prior allergic reaction or dependency to morphine, Demerol, Di-laudid, Fentanyl, Marcaine (bupivacaine), lidocaine or Naropin (ropivacaine);

• Cardiac transplant patients

• Inability to perform follow-up assessments;

• Pre-existing infection (pneumonia or surgical site)

• Repeat of primary surgery