CNAP™ Monitor Study

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Surgery; Spinal Surgery

Treatments: Device: CNAP

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01356082

IRB11-00170

Details and patient eligibility

About

A newly developed monitor for continuous non-invasive blood pressure monitoring (CNAP™ Monitor 500; CNSystems Medizintechnik AG, Graz, Austria) provides beat-to-beat BP readings and is non-invasive. To make sure that anaesthesiologist can rely on and make clinical decisions based on values provided by the CNAP™ monitor, to demonstrate its reliability we will test it during the perioperative care of children.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who will already be having an indwelling arterial cannula placed for their surgical procedure.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with history of a peripheral neurologic or neuropathic disorder.
• Patients in whom an invasive arterial cannula cannot be placed.
• Patients with vascular implants at the sites of non-invasive blood pressure measurement (fingers and upper arm of the examined arm).
• Edematous patients.
• Patients who are less than 20 kg.

Trial design

46 participants in 1 patient group

Arterial blood pressure line

Description:

Patients receiving an arterial blood pressure line

Treatment:

Device: CNAP