# UGIST: Ultrasound Guided Internal Jugular Short-Term Central Venous Catheters Tunneling

> **NCT00639197** · NA · UNKNOWN · sponsor: **Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation** · enrollment: 20 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Infection
- Bacteremia

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** To tunnel
- **PROCEDURE:** Standard (not to tunnel)

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00639197
- **Lead sponsor:** Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** UNKNOWN
- **Start date:** 2008-03
- **Primary completion:** 2008-06
- **Final completion:** —
- **Target enrollment:** 20 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2008-04-11


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00639197

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00639197, "UGIST: Ultrasound Guided Internal Jugular Short-Term Central Venous Catheters Tunneling". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00639197. Licensed CC0.

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