N/A Completed N=14 Randomized Other

Buttonhole Versus Step Ladder Cannulation in High Dose Hemodialysis

renal failure

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01962025 ↗

Enrolled (actual)

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Sep 2020

Primary outcomePrimary: Feasibility of Participant Recruitment and Site Coordination — 8; 6 Participants

Summary

The purpose of the pilot study is to determine: 1) Will patients agree to be randomized to two different methods of putting needles in their arteriovenous fistula and, 2) if we can adequately coordinate all of the sites to get useful multicentre trial data

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Feasibility of Participant Recruitment and Site Coordination	8; 6	—
SECONDARY Participant Training Time	19; 29	—
SECONDARY Cost	—	—
SECONDARY Number of Participants With Complications	3; 1; 4; 3; 3; 0	—
SECONDARY Pain With Needling	17.4; 10.7	—

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Adult patients > 18 years old,
Training for home hemodialysis
Able to give informed consent,
Arteriovenous fistula 5. Life expectancy of greater than 12 months.

Exclusion Criteria

Potential to be lost from the program within 12 months of training (planned living donor transplant, transfer to peritoneal dialysis (PD) or move from training centre catchment area),
Allergy to mupirocin,
Short segments or aneurysms within the arteriovenous fistula (AVF) that the attending nephrologist believes require buttonhole cannulation.,
Mechanical heart valves,
Patients who require intradermal lidocaine for needle insertion -

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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01962025). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.