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Trauma Heart to Arm Time (THAT)

20. februar 2012 opdateret af: Niguarda Hospital

In the prehospital setting it would be helpful to assess primary changes in central blood volume or preload (venous return, stroke volume, diastolic ventricular volume) that occur during the stability phase following injury when regulatory mechanisms are still functioning.

Obviously in this setting a non invasive bedside beat-to-beat index would be helpful.

Pulse Transit Time (PTT) is the sum of Pre-Ejection Period (PEP), the time interval between the onset of ventricular depolarization and the ventricular ejection, and Vascular Transit Time (VTT), the time it takes for the pulse wave to travel from the aortic valve to the peripheral arteries (Obrist et al. 1979). PEP variations are known to correlate with reductions in central blood volume induced by head-up tilt (Chan et al., 2007b, 2008). The same authors also demonstrated that PTT variations follow closely PEP variations and therefore central blood volume variations (Chan et al., 2007b). Following central blood volume reductions induced by head-up tilting ventricular diastolic filling time increases involving an increase in PEP and PTT. Chan et al. (Chan et al., 2007b) concluded that PTT could have been used to assess early central hypovolemia and suggested that joint analysis of PTT and RR intervals could help in predicting the extent of blood volume loss. The investigators hypothesized that sympathetic drive associated with trauma would act on cardiac contractility through beta activity thus shortening PTT without reducing RR interval to the same extent in healthy hearts. We also hypothesized that progressive hypovolemia would lead to a rising of PTT (augmented diastolic filling time) and a RR interval shortening (relative tachycardia). In this study the investigators propose and index based on the beat-to-beat PTT/RR ratio to assess central hypovolemia in traumatic patients enrolled by our Helicopter Emergency Medical System (HEMS) in a prehospital setting.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

100

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

      • Milano, Italien, 20100
        • A.R.E.U. - A.A.T. 118 Milano

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år og ældre (Voksen, Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Prøveudtagningsmetode

Sandsynlighedsprøve

Studiebefolkning

All trauma victims enrolled by our Helicopter Emergency Medical System (HEMS)

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • all trauma victims enrolled by our Helicopter Emergency Medical System (HEMS)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • need of immediate life-saving manoeuvres as decided by onboard physician following Prehospital Trauma Care (PTC) criteria (CITATION PTC)
  • Cardiac arrest
  • presence of preexisting chronic illnesses involving the autonomic nervous system such as hypertension, diabetes and any neurological disease
  • any preexisting medical therapy including those administered by the emergency medical team as defined in point 1)
  • presence of supraventricular ectopic beats more than 5% of total recorded beats
  • absence of sinus rhythm
  • presence of intraventricular or bundle branch blocks or artificial pacemaker
  • spinal chord trauma above D2
  • patient age <18 years
  • presence of burns not allowing monitoring

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Observationsmodeller: Kun etui
  • Tidsperspektiver: Fremadrettet

Kohorter og interventioner

Gruppe / kohorte
Intervention / Behandling
Trauma victims
All prehospital traumatic patients enrolled by our Helicopter Emergency Medical System (HEMS)
Three-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), PPG oxymetry, non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) are registered

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. september 2010

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. maj 2011

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

27. september 2010

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

27. september 2010

Først opslået (Skøn)

28. september 2010

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

22. februar 2012

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

20. februar 2012

Sidst verificeret

1. februar 2012

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 179_06/2010

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