Henry Ford Health System

Douglas Curry

John Kennedy

Stanley Frinak

Jerry Yee

Gerard Zasuwa

Anatole Besarab

Helen Kimball Hirschman

Jeffrey J Sands

Lalathaksha Kumbar

Brad Astor

A method for determining risk of an adverse event, such as thrombosis or a required intervention, associated with a vascular access includes receiving hemodialysis treatment data associated with the vascular access, deriving a plurality of selected risk factors from the hemodialysis treatment data, evaluating the plurality of selected risk factors over a time period, assigning raw scores to each selected risk factor based on its values over the time period, summing the raw scores for the plurality of selected risk factors to determine a cumulative raw score, and correlating the cumulative raw score with a level of risk of an adverse event associated with the vascular access.

Method for determining vascular access risk in a hemodialysis patient population

A device and method for determining intravascular pressure and irregular needle placement in a hemodialysis procedure include analyzing means for automatically deriving venous access pressure (VAP) at a location of venous needle insertion into the patient and determining a ratio of VAP to mean arterial pressure, where the analyzing means determines multiple VAP values over multiple time periods and determines multiple ratios, one for each VAP value. Detecting means compare each ratio to a predetermined standard ratio derived from a moving average of prior VAP ratios, where the detecting means detects irregular needle placement when elevation of the ratio above the standard ratio is indicated.

Device and method for detecting irregular placement of an extracorporeal vascular access needle

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West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Douglas Curry