Assessment of the Clinical Utility of Non Invasive Peripheral Signal Averaged Pulse Volume

Completed

Conditions studied: Peripheral Vascular Response

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine the clinical usefulness of measuring the heart's pumping ability by measuring the Peripheral Pulse Volume (PPV).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00143858

Run by

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

People needed

16

Starts

2004-09-01

Expected to finish

2007-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-08-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Coronary care unit patients with indwelling right heart (Swan Ganz) catheters with or without intraaortic balloon assist pumping devices.
• Congestive Heart Failure patients on and off various therapeutic inotropic agents with or without indwelling heart catheters
• Cardiac catheterization laboratory patients undergoing prophylactic IABP in the presence of left main or diffuse unstable CAD
• Chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis.
• Peripheral Vascular Disease patients
• Patients undergoing Tilt Table Testing
• Any patients undergoing right heart catheterization Exclusion criteria -- Non specified

Where it is running

• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

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