Testing a new device to place central lines in harder cases
Part of Heart & circulation clinical trials.
This study tracks how well a new device (the Surfacer System) works when standard methods can’t place a central venous line (a larger tube into a major vein). It may help people who need a long-term access line but have blocked veins where usual procedures don’t work.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You have been referred to get a central line (a catheter or feeding/nutrition line into a major vein).
- Your medical team says standard central-line placement is not possible because of vein blockage or another access problem in your upper body.
- Your condition involves a planned access route such as the neck/chest veins, jugular, or similar major veins.
- You are willing and able to sign written informed consent.
- You do not have certain major blood-flow blockages that would make this device unsafe or unusable (notably in the right leg veins or big vein near the liver).
- You do not have an acute blood clot in the vessel route the device would need to cross, and you don’t have arterial/heart/brain vessel blockages that affect safety.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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