Blood Collection of Patient Presenting in the ED and Prescribed a BNP

Fujirebio Diagnostics

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Device: In Vitro diagnostic tests

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02614209

FDI-120

Details and patient eligibility

About

Plasma specimen collected from patients presenting in the Emergency Department (ED) with or without Heart Failure (HF) and prescribed a BNP.

Full description

Plasma samples are collected from a minimum of 400 subjects. Specimens are used to confirm the currently accepted BNP cut off as and aid in the diagnosis and assessment of HF.

Stored specimens for future use in BNP assay development.

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Males and females >21 years of age
• Able to understand and willing to provide informed consent
• Present in to ED
• BNP test requested

Exclusion criteria

• Males and females< 21 years
• Unable to provide informed consent
• Not presenting to ED
• hemolyzed sample