Trancutaneous Monitoring to Avoid Hypercapnea During Complex Catheter Ablations

Completed

Conditions studied: Hypercapnia

In brief

Use of trancutaneous CO2 (TC02) monitoring to aide in titration of sedation of midazolam and fentanyl. Trancutaneous readings validated with invasively obtained specimens from existing arterial sheaths required during AF and VT ablations (trans-septal and retrograde aortic respectively)

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01815034

Run by

The Cleveland Clinic

People needed

50

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-08-19

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) or ventricular tachycardia (VT) under moderate sedation.

You may not qualify if…

• Procedures scheduled for general anesthesia

Where it is running

• Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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