Background: Hypertension affects about 25 % of the adult population, and a small proportion, up to 10 %, develop treatment resistant hypertension. Endovascular renal artery denervation (RDN) is a new experimental treatment tested in research, both nationally and internationally. Conscious sedation and analgesia is recommended.Objective: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a research based nurse administered sedation procedure for this new treatment.
Method:The project is part of a prospective intervention study assessing the effects of the RDN treatment. A total of 25 patients were included. Data was collected using a questionnaire developed specifically for this study, including assessment of pain, applying a numeric rating scale with response options from 0 to 10 (NRS 11).