Ultrasound for Guidewire Detection

Wroclaw Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Kidney Failure, Acute; Kidney Failure, Chronic

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound guidance

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03727581

st40

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the project is to check if there is a possibility for a nephrologist to visualise the guidewire by means of available ultrasound scanners. To evaluate that, the procedure of catheter insertion will be expanded by ultrasound examination of right atrium and inferior vena cava border using substernal view. Such imaging seems to ameliorate the safety of catheter implementation and could be a good alternative for fluoroscopy, eliminating its adverse effects.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Renal failure requiring hemodialysis through a dialysis catheter
• Capable of giving informed consent
• Placement of internal jugular vein catheter

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to provide informed consent
• Poor visualisation of inferior vena cava