IRCT20240215061017N2 IRCT 2025-02-12 CMH Lahore Medical College Usefulness of desmopressin in reducing bleeding during insertion of tunneled dialysis catheters Hemostatic effectiveness of intranasal desmopressin for tunneled dialysis catheter placement 2025-02-25 anticipated 80 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/81558 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Treatment, Randomization description: Individual patients would be randomized into two groups using sequences generated online before the patient enrollment gets started. This randomization list will be kept with the Principal Investigator. All doctors performing the catheter insertion procedures would contact him personally to check which arm each successive patient is to be randomized to. N/A end stage renal disease. Intervention 1: Intervention group: Patients in this group would be given a single puff of desmopressin in each nostril, 30 minutes before the insertion of tunneled dialysis catheters. After half an hour, catheters would be inserted in such patients. Intervention 2: Control group: Patients in this group will not receive any intervention. Catheters would be inserted straight away. Yes - There is a plan to make this available What will be shared: Individual patient data would be shared on Harvard Dataverse once the study is published in a biomedical journal When: After publication of paper in a biomedical journal To whom: For anyone who may be interested Conditions: No restrictions Where to obtain: By emailing the PI How to obtain: Request forwarded by email Comments: