BACKGROUND: Achieving optimal dry body weight in hemodialysis is challenging. Clinical assessment alone is inadequate, and methods such as bioimpedance monitoring may be impractical for every patient treatment. Continuous blood volume monitoring, blood pressure and heart rate variability inform clinical decision-making, but integrated use of multiple methodologies to achieve dry weight and understand patient factors has not yet been described. METHODS: Nineteen chronic hemodialysis patients underwent thrice-weekly treatments for two weeks. Baseline hydration status and target weight were determined by bioimpedance. During subsequent treatments, ultrafiltration was adjusted and relative blood volume, blood pressure and pulse were recorded non-invasively. Bioimpedance was repeated to assess hydration. Response of variables to progressive change in weight was assessed and selected patients underwent additional autonomic function testing. RESULTS: Four distinct hemodynamic patterns emerged. Profile A: 4 patients demonstrated overhydration at baseline. With decreasing target, pulse and blood pressure remained stable while blood volume and bioimpedance demonstrated achievement of dry weight. Profile B: 8 patients demonstrated overhydration at baseline. With decreasing target, blood pressure remained stable while pulse increased. Profile C: 5 patients were overhydrated, but as weight decreased, blood pressure became unstable and heart rate failed to compensate. Further testing confirmed autonomic dysfunction. Profile D: 2 patients were dehydrated, and with increasing target demonstrated stable pulse and pressure, while blood volume and bioimpedance revealed achievement of dry weight. CONCLUSIONS: Integrating existing non-invasive, continuous monitoring during hemodialysis enabled achievement of dry weight and identified distinct profiles of the patients, some with autonomic dysfunction. This strategy may contribute to achieving optimum dry weight while improving cardiovascular tolerability of hemodialysis.

Bonello, M., House, A., Cruz, D., Asuman, Y., Andrikos, E., Petras, D., et al. (2007). Integration of blood volume, blood pressure, heart rate and bioimpedance monitoring for the achievement of optimal dry body weight during chronic hemodialysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS, 30(12), 1098-1108 [10.1177/039139880703001210].

Integration of blood volume, blood pressure, heart rate and bioimpedance monitoring for the achievement of optimal dry body weight during chronic hemodialysis

STRAZZABOSCO, MARIO;
2007

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Achieving optimal dry body weight in hemodialysis is challenging. Clinical assessment alone is inadequate, and methods such as bioimpedance monitoring may be impractical for every patient treatment. Continuous blood volume monitoring, blood pressure and heart rate variability inform clinical decision-making, but integrated use of multiple methodologies to achieve dry weight and understand patient factors has not yet been described. METHODS: Nineteen chronic hemodialysis patients underwent thrice-weekly treatments for two weeks. Baseline hydration status and target weight were determined by bioimpedance. During subsequent treatments, ultrafiltration was adjusted and relative blood volume, blood pressure and pulse were recorded non-invasively. Bioimpedance was repeated to assess hydration. Response of variables to progressive change in weight was assessed and selected patients underwent additional autonomic function testing. RESULTS: Four distinct hemodynamic patterns emerged. Profile A: 4 patients demonstrated overhydration at baseline. With decreasing target, pulse and blood pressure remained stable while blood volume and bioimpedance demonstrated achievement of dry weight. Profile B: 8 patients demonstrated overhydration at baseline. With decreasing target, blood pressure remained stable while pulse increased. Profile C: 5 patients were overhydrated, but as weight decreased, blood pressure became unstable and heart rate failed to compensate. Further testing confirmed autonomic dysfunction. Profile D: 2 patients were dehydrated, and with increasing target demonstrated stable pulse and pressure, while blood volume and bioimpedance revealed achievement of dry weight. CONCLUSIONS: Integrating existing non-invasive, continuous monitoring during hemodialysis enabled achievement of dry weight and identified distinct profiles of the patients, some with autonomic dysfunction. This strategy may contribute to achieving optimum dry weight while improving cardiovascular tolerability of hemodialysis.
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Blood Pressure, blood volume, hemodialisis
English
dic-2007
30
12
1098
1108
none
Bonello, M., House, A., Cruz, D., Asuman, Y., Andrikos, E., Petras, D., et al. (2007). Integration of blood volume, blood pressure, heart rate and bioimpedance monitoring for the achievement of optimal dry body weight during chronic hemodialysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS, 30(12), 1098-1108 [10.1177/039139880703001210].
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