N/A
N=14
Buttonhole Versus Step Ladder Cannulation in High Dose Hemodialysis
Renal Failure
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01962025 ↗Enrolled (actual)
14
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Sep 2020
Primary outcome: Primary: Feasibility of Participant Recruitment and Site Coordination — 8; 6 Participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Buttonhole needling technique (Procedure)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
- Primary completion
- Nov 2017
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 | — |
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
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 -
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.