Pilot Study of the Safety of a Daily Ethanol Lock for Urinary Catheters in Critically Ill Children

Summary

Hypothesis 1: Blood alcohol concentration will be \<25 mg/100ml (equivalent to a blood alcohol concentration of \<0.025%) after a 1 hour urinary catheter ethanol lock. Hypothesis 2: Daily urinary catheter ethanol locks will not result in increased hematuria or increased urinary white cells.

Timeline

Start

2013-07

Primary completion

2013-11

Completion

2015-06

Publications

• Results Teppa BE, Stockwell JA. Safety of daily ethanol locks for urinary catheters in critically ill children: a pilot study. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Oct 1;43(10):1114-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.012. Epub 2015 Jun 19.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.