AKI Prevention and Early Intervention in VAD Patients Admitted for Acute Medical Events.

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Conditions studied: Acute Kidney Injury

In brief

The investigators are doing this research to investigate whether multifaceted preventive measures for newly hospitalized ventricular assist device (VAD) patients will reduce the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) occurrence rate, progression and associated complications

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03236103

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

900

Starts

2017-05-19

Expected to finish

2019-04-08

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-10

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Adult patients with VAD in place who are admitted to the hospital for acute medical illness during the study period. For those with multiple admissions during the study period only the first admission will be studied.
• Patients who are able to give consent. In case of patients that are mentally impaired we will obtain consent from power of attorney and when patients regain intact mental capacity we will reobtain consent from the patient.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients on dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis).

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic in Arizona — Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
• Mayo Clinic in Florida — Jacksonville, Florida, United States
• Mayo Clinic in Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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