Combining Bioimpedance and Blood Volume Measurements in Haemodialysis

NCT ID: NCT03851185

Last Updated: 2019-02-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 160 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-02-15
• Study Completion Date: 2021-03-31

Brief Summary

Around 60,000 patients in the UK are being treated for severe kidney failure. The most common treatment is haemodialysis (HD). An important part of HD is removing extra fluid from the body which the kidneys normally remove in urine. Deciding how much fluid to remove is not easy. It is normally based on clinical signs, such as blood pressure or tissue swollen with fluid, but there is a need for better tests to help guide these decisions.

Bioimpedance tests are one way of measuring fluid status. They involve passing a small electric current through tissue using stickers on the skin. The test is portable, cheap, simple, painless and harmless. One bioimpedance device, the Body Composition Monitor (BCM), has been designed particularly for kidney patients. However the BCM measures fluid in the whole body and cannot tell us how much fluid is in the blood (the blood volume), which has the biggest effect on patients' health.

The aim of this study is to see whether blood volume measurements can help to make fluid management more individualised. This could reduce the impact of dialysis on patients' health and improve patients' experience of the treatment.

Objective 1: To demonstrate whether the addition of blood volume measurements can help to tailor fluid management to HD patients' individual needs. In particular we will look at how body size, nutritional state, age and localised fluid can affect patients' blood volume.

Objective 2: To see if there is a simple way of making blood volume measurements with no need for expertise or extra equipment.

It is planned to recruit 40 patients into 4 clinically different groups and compare results between them.

The results will be compared between groups to help us understand how decisions about fluid management can be tailored to keep blood volume at the optimal level.

Conditions

Haemodialysis Complication

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Ultrafiltration volumes in the preceding two weeks of less than 0.5 litres;
• pre-HD BCM-measured OH <1.1 litres; pre-HD blood pressure <140/90.

Cohort 2 - High BMI group: This group is intended to represent patients with high BMI who routinely finish dialysis with significant fluid depletion, as defined by BCM, without intradialytic symptoms.

• BMI>30 with target weight > 1.1 kg below normally hydrated weight;
• no recorded symptoms related to fluid removal in the preceding 2 weeks.

Cohort 3 - Low LTI group: This group is intended to represent patients who have a low LTI and who routinely finish dialysis with a degree of excess fluid as defined by BCM.

• LTI < 10kg/m2 with target weight > 1.1 kg above normally hydrated weight.

Cohort 4 - Localised oedema group: This group is intended to represent patients who have localised lower limb oedema.

• Oedema as defined by pitting

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

St James's University Hospitals NHS Trust

Leeds, , United Kingdom

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United Kingdom

Facility Contacts

David Keane

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

RL18/109517

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id