Measuring Cardiovascular Stress in Patients on Hemodialysis

West Penn Allegheny Health System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypotension; Hemodialysis; Circulatory Stress; Photo-plethysmography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01267617

RC-5046

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

• 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

Trial design

26 participants in 1 patient group

chronic hemodialysis outpatients