Taurolidine Lock in Long Term Parenteral Nutrition

Summary

Taurolidine alone or in combination with citrate have been proposed for locking the catheter to reduce the number of catheter infections. As there is not enough evidence to give recommendations in this regard, the study tested the hipothesis that taurolidine improves the outcome of long term paretneral nutrition.

Timeline

Start

2012-11

Primary completion

2013-11

Completion

2013-12

Publications

• Background Pittiruti M, Hamilton H, Biffi R, MacFie J, Pertkiewicz M; ESPEN. ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: central venous catheters (access, care, diagnosis and therapy of complications). Clin Nutr. 2009 Aug;28(4):365-77. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2009.03.015. Epub 2009 May 21.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.