Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator in Hemodialysis Patients (WED-HED) Study

Exclusion Criteria

• •Is receiving or will receive hemodialysis due to acute kidney injury and is not expected to receive subsequent chronic hemodialysis therapy
• •Patient has an active ICD
• •Patient has a unipolar pacemaker
• •Patient has physical or mental conditions preventing him/her from interacting with or wearing a Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator
• •Patient has a chest circumference at the level of the xiphoid of \< 24 inches
• •Patient has a chest circumference at the level of the xiphoid of \> 56 inches
• •Patient has an advance directive prohibiting resuscitation
• •Patient has cancer or other terminal disease (excluding ESRD) with expected survival less than 6 months
• •Patient is medically unstable for reasons not specifically related to kidney disease
• •Patient is scheduled for live-donor kidney transplantation within 6 calendar months
• •Patient is unable to consent