What this means
This study plans to check whether frail patients are harder to place a neck vein tube in. It has not started, so it cannot yet tell us the answer.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Opening soon
- Who can join
- Ages 18 and over
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- Frailty and Ultrasound-Guided Central Venous Catheterization Difficulty in Adult Cardiac Surgery Patients
- Trial ID
- NCT07701538 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- observational
- Conditions
- Frailty, Cardiac Surgery, Central Venous Catheter
- What is tested
- Ultrasound-Guided Internal Jugular Vein Catheterization
- Sponsor
- Ankara City Hospital Bilkent
- Ages
- 18 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Jul 14, 2026 · updated Jul 14, 2026
Registry summary
This prospective observational study aims to evaluate the association between preoperative frailty and the procedural difficulty of ultrasound-guided internal jugular vein catheterization in adult patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery.
Frailty will be assessed using the Clinical Frailty Scale and handgrip strength measurements. Preprocedural ultrasound evaluation will include internal jugular vein anatomical characteristics such as anteroposterior and transverse vein diameters, cross-sectional area (CSA), common carotid artery diameter, skin-to-vein distance, overlap status, and sternocleidomastoid muscle thickness Catheterization difficulty will be assessed using the Gaber Procedural Difficulty Index.
The study seeks to determine whether frailty and ultrasound-derived anatomical parameters can predict difficult internal jugular venous catheterization and improve preprocedural risk assessment without altering routine clinical care.
Sites (1)
- Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye)