Echocardiography Guided Fluid Resuscitation in Critically Ill Patients.

December 30, 2020 updated by: Mohammed Esam, Assiut University

Echocardiography Guided Fluid Resuscitation in Critically Ill Patients

To compare between the impact of echocardiography guided fluid resuscitation and clinically guided fluid resuscitation on critically ill patients in hospital outcome.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Resuscitation often requires the infusion of intravenous fluid in an effort to reverse organ dysfunction. The harms of inappropriate use of fluid are becoming increasingly apparent The question of whether the patient improves with fluid, additional vasopressors or inotropes can be difficult to answer. The gold standard for assessing fluid responsiveness to guide fluid administration in critically ill patients is to perform a fluid challenge. The rationale for volume expansion is to increase the cardiac output (CO) and oxygen delivery to ultimately improve tissue oxygenation. This involves the infusion of a specific amount of intravenous fluid to assess ventricular preload reserve and subsequent systemic haemodynamic effects. In a patient with acute hemodynamic instability, a fluid challenge will cause an increase in stroke volume, according to the Frank-Starling curve. This increase in stroke volume has a salutary effect because it improves tissue perfusion. In contrast, higher hydrostatic pressures in the vascular system predispose the patient to edema, organic dysfunction, and increased risk of in-hospital mortality.

Fluid responsiveness is conventionally defined as an increase of at least 10% to 15% in SV in response to a fluid challenge, which is a reflection of the limits of precision of the technology used.

Assessment of the response in flow to a fluid challenge can be guided with echocardiography. It is achieved by measuring left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (LVOT VTI) immediately before and after fluid challenge.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

120

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Assiut, Egypt, 71515
        • Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • ADULT
  • OLDER_ADULT
  • CHILD

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1- All Critical ill-patients with Acute Physiologic Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation II score (APACHE II score)≥ 25

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Bad echocardiographic window
  2. APACHE II score < 25.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: PARALLEL
  • Masking: SINGLE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: echocardiography guided fluid resuscitation
Echocardiography guided fluid administration
EXPERIMENTAL: clinically guided fluid resuscitation
Echocardiography guided fluid administration

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The impact of echocardiography guided fluid resuscitation
Time Frame: Baseline
we will compare the results of fluid administration between two groups of patients with APACHE II score > 25: the first group using clinical sense only and the other group using transthoracic echocardiography including: The sample box of PW Doppler will be placed at thelevel of the aortic valve or within 1 cm of it, in the LVOT. Peak velocity variation of 12% before and after 250 cc normal saline challenge in adults predicts fluid responsiveness (12) and VTI variation is also predictive. The percentage variations in SV, VTI or peak velocity are calculated using the following equation: variations =100 x svmax-svmin/(svmax+svmin) x 0.5.
Baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (ACTUAL)

January 1, 2018

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

March 1, 2020

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

March 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 27, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 23, 2017

First Posted (ACTUAL)

September 28, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

December 31, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 30, 2020

Last Verified

December 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Echocardiography guided fluid

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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