Can Capillary Refill Time Variation During Passive Leg Raising Predict Fluid Responsiveness

Can Capillary Refill Time Variation Induced by Passive Leg Raising Predict Capillary Refill Time Variation After a Fluid Load in Patients With Circulatory Failure.

Fluid responsiveness in a context of circulatory failure can be assessed by different way. Microcirculatory evaluation to assess fluid responsiveness could be interesting, but the available device are expensive and the analysis are delayed. Capillary refill time (CRT) is hampered by its variability. The investigators have developed a method to standardize the pressure, the length of compression and a computerized analysis to calculate the capillary refill time. This method enables accurate measure of CRT.

The investigators will study if CRT variation induced by a passive leg raising (PLR) can predict CRT after a 500 ml Fluid Load.

About thirty patients in circulatory failure with a continuous cardiac output monitoring for whom, the attending physician has decided a fluid load, will be included. hemodynamic parameters (arterial pressure, venous pressure, cardiac output), metabolic parameters (arterial and venous blood gas and lactate), microcirculatory parameters (assessed by sublingual video-microscopy) and capillary refill time measured on the thorax and on the gingival area will be recorded. Data collection will be made before and after a passive leg raising and after a 500 ml fluid load of crystalloids.

Patients will be aposteriori sorted in two groups: responders and non responders, defined by the reduction of CRT after the fluid load. The diagnosis ability of the CRT variation after PLR to predict in which group each patient is classified will be investigate and receiver operative characteristic curve will be built. These results will be compared to the metabolic response, the macrocirculatory response, and the microcirculatory response.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Circulatory Failure
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Observational study: No special intervention will be made.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 34

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Bron, France, 69500
    • Hôpital Cardiologique Louis Pradel Service d'anesthésie réanimation

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patient hospitalized in our intensive care unit who are in circulatory failure and for whom the intensivist as decided to administer a 500 ml crystalloid infusion.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patient is equipped with an arterial and a central venous catheter
• Capillary refill time is measurable.
• A cardiac output monitoring is available
• A 500 ml fluid load as been prescribed by the intensivist in charge.
• A circulatory failure is present defined as follow:

Patient treated with inotropic or vasoconstrictive drugs

OR

Patient presenting an hypotension defined by systolic arterial pressure less than 90 mmHg or mean arterial pressure less than 70 mmHg or a drop 40 mmHg in case of previous Hypertension.

WITH

tissue hypoperfusion defined by at least one of the following item:

• Lactate > 1 mmol/L
• Capillary refill time > 3 s
• Blotch
• Organ dysfunction due to the circulatory failure (oligo anuria, acute lung injury / acute respiratory distress syndrome, encephalopathy)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant woman
• Cardiogenic pulmonary edema
• Circulatory support : extracorporal life support / extracorporal membrane oxygenator, Thoratec, heart mate.
• Moribund patient
• Intra-abdominal hypertension
• Lower limb amputation

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Capillary refill time response	A reduction of about 30% of the capillary refill time after a 500 ml fluid load will defined responders. Evaluation of the diagnosis capacity of capillary refill time variation after passive leg raising to diagnose responders will be investigate.	The period of inclusion last 45 minutes, the outcome will be assessed at the end of the 500 ml fluid load 45 minutes after the inclusion.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Cardiac output response.	An increase of 15% of cardiac output after a 500 ml fluid load will define macrocirculatory responders. Evaluation of the diagnosis capacity of capillary refill time after passive leg raising to diagnose macrocirculatory responders will be investigate.	The period of inclusion last 45 minutes, the outcome will be assessed at the end of the 500 ml fluid load 45 minutes after the inclusion.
Microcirculatory response	An increase of 15% of the proportion of perfused vessels or from 0.6 of the microcirculatory flow index assessed by videomicroscopy after a 500 ml fluid load will define microcirculatory responders. Evaluation of the diagnosis capacity of capillary refill time variation after passive leg raising to diagnose microcirculatory responders will be investigate.	The period of inclusion last 45 minutes, the outcome will be assessed at the end of the 500 ml fluid load 45 minutes after the inclusion.
Metabolic response	An increase of 15% Oxygen consumption after a 500 ml fluid load will define metabolic responders. Evaluation of the diagnosis capacity of capillary refill time to diagnose metabolic responders after passive leg raising will be investigate.	The period of inclusion last 45 minutes, the outcome will be assessed at the end of the 500 ml fluid load 45 minutes after the inclusion.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hopital Louis Pradel

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Jacquet-Lagreze M, Bouhamri N, Portran P, Schweizer R, Baudin F, Lilot M, Fornier W, Fellahi JL. Capillary refill time variation induced by passive leg raising predicts capillary refill time response to volume expansion. Crit Care. 2019 Aug 16;23(1):281. doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2560-0.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: September 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): May 1, 2017
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): May 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 13, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 23, 2014
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): September 25, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): May 5, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 4, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: microcirculation; Fluid responsiveness; circulatory failure; passive leg raising; capillary refill time
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Shock
• Other Study ID Numbers: EudraCT/ANSM: 2014-A01034-43