access making a grinding noise

[sullidog]

I notice from time to time when I'm being hooked up my access will make this audible grinding noise, it's like a noise like someone grinding their teeth. It's audible enough where you don't need a spephoscope to listen to it. My tech said that's a sign of narrowing, anyone else ever heard their access make this type of noise?

[retrartpole]

I think it would be best that you feed us more information on your matter as it would be easier for us to know what is actually wrong and to find out what you are currently facing. In fact, there are already quite a number of people viewing what you have said here and I believe that no one has been telling you what to do or giving you further advise on this matter might be caused of the insufficient information that you have provided.

[rsudock]

sdog how are your pressures in your arterial and venous needles?  if they are extremely high that may also be an indicator of narrowing. it's like trying to put a drinking straw (the needle ) into a test tube, when the fistula should be a lot wider. hope this helps. ask the techs to test the acess flow as well. they get a computer with these little clamps that get clamped on to each line and they test to see how fast or slow the blood flows. it is called a transonic....


xo,
R