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Arterial Versus Venous Activated Clotting Time (ACT) Measurements During Atrial Fibrillation Ablations

NCT04285840 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2021-06-28

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Summary

Activated clotting times (ACTs) are routinely measured throughout atrial fibrillation ablations to monitor anticoagulation prior to and after heparin administration. Routinely, ACTs are obtained from an arterial line established prior to heparin administration. With technological advances, the cardiac intervention team is interested in eliminating the need for arterial lines for noninvasive monitoring devices; eliminating arterial lines could decrease the risk of bleeding, infection, and pain. Since procedural access requires femoral vein catheterization, obtaining ACTs through the venous sheath would not pose additional risks to the patient. In this study it proposed to draw paired arterial and venous ACT samples in ablation procedures to compare the agreement between venous and arterial ACTs for adequate patient treatment planning.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Venous ACT

Matched/paired venous ACT samples will be drawn at the same time as arterial ACT samples to compare the results agreement between venous and arterial ACTs. Subjects undergoing atrial fibrillation ablations will continue to have Heparin dosed on the arterial ACT sample results only per the standard of care. Heparin will not be administered based on venous ACT levels obtained during this study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Allen Deborah, PhD · Duke Health

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-10
Primary Completion
2020-07-01
Completion
2020-07-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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