3 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
Undifferentiated hypotension is a medical emergency where a patient's blood pressure drops to critical levels due to several possible reasons. The medical staff treating the patient will need to find out the reason for your drop in blood pressure as soon as possible. When treating low blood pressure, the medical staff typically performs a procedure called central venous cannulation (CVC). CVC involves accessing a large vein (usually the subclavian under the collarbone) by inserting a needle into the vein. By doing this, the medical staff can measure the pressures in the patient's veins or give medicine to the patient while they are in the hospital. The purpose of this study is to compare the time needed to complete CVC using the AxoTrack device to CVC guided by landmarks on a patient's body. The investigators expect that there will be a maximum of 30 patients enrolled in this study.
Feasibility Study This will be performed by an expert operator in Interventional Radiology who routinely performs CVC catheter placement, using appropriate pediatric human anatomy and vessel size, as well as real patient care scenarios.
The purpose of this study is to assess user satisfaction and the frequency of common central venous catheter insertion complications when using a novel cannulation knife.