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Anticoagulation in Haemodialysis in Children: A Thirty-Period Crossover Trial

In: UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics

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  • John N. S. Matthews

    (Newcastle University, School of Mathematics and Statistics)

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Patients undergoing haemodialysis for kidney failure are fitted with an in-dwelling catheter so that the patient’s circulation can readily be connected to the haemodialyser on each visit to hospital. Between the dialysis sessions there is a tendency for the blood within the catheter to form clots and these must be removed before dialysis can proceed. To avoid clotting a quantity of an anti-coagulant, heparin, is instilled into the line at the end of each dialysis session. This study describes a trial where heparin is compared with an alternative, alteplase, in children undergoing haemodialysis. Very few children receive haemodialysis but because those who do must attend regularly, the trial used a crossover design. While crossover designs are widely used they seldom have more than five or six periods. This article describes how a crossover trial with 30 periods was specially designed for this trial.

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  • John N. S. Matthews, 2016. "Anticoagulation in Haemodialysis in Children: A Thirty-Period Crossover Trial," Springer Books, in: Philip J. Aston & Anthony J. Mulholland & Katherine M.M. Tant (ed.), UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics, edition 1, pages 243-249, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-25454-8_31
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25454-8_31
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