Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: A Randomized Study to Test Peripheral Venous Catheter Lock Therapy With Either Heparin or Saline in Patients Admitted to the Internal Medicine Department
Brief Summary: A clinical, prospective. controlled and randomized study with patients with a peripheral venous catheter. Patients will be randomized to either receive heparin or saline. The investigators will monitored the clinical out come to further evaluate catheter colonization rate, phlebitis rate, days of hospital stay, antimicrobial costs, and adverse effects.