Measuring Cardiovascular Stress in Patients on Hemodialysis

Completed

Conditions studied: Hemodialysis, Hypotension, Circulatory Stress, Photo-plethysmography

In brief

To determine if proprietary software that uses pulse-wave analysis to interpret the output of a conventional pulse-oximeter, can predict the onset of circulatory stress, before changes in blood pressure and pulse occur, in patients undergoing outpatient hemodialysis.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01267617

Run by

West Penn Allegheny Health System

People needed

26

Starts

2010-11-30

Expected to finish

2011-11-14

Last updated by the study team

2020-08-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients having regular outpatient dialysis treatments
• Patients who are willing and able to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who do not wish to participate
• Patients with contraindications to attachment of monitoring devices
• Patients with skin rash or hypersensitivity to the adhesive sensors

Where it is running

• Allegheny General Hospital — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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