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Personalized Hemodynamic Therapy in Patients Undergoing High-risk Surgery

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Postoperative Complications
Registration Number
NCT02834377
Lead Sponsor
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of using the personal preoperatively assessed cardiac output in high-risk patients to guide perioperative administration of fluids and vasoactive drugs on predefined postoperative complications.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
188
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients ≥ 18 years undergoing a major abdominal procedure (including general, urological, gynaecological, and vascular) with an expected duration of surgery ≥ 90 min or presumed blood loss exceeding 1,000 mL (e.g., intrabdominal vascular surgery) and ≥ 1 of the following high-risk criteria:
  • acute or chronic renal impairment (serum creatinine ≥ 1.3 mg/dL)
  • predefined risk factors for cardiac or respiratory complications
  • Immunodeficiency due to a therapy (e.g., immunosuppressants, chemotherapy, radiation, long-term or high-dose steroids)
  • Immunodeficiency due to specific diseases (e.g., leukaemia, lymphoma, AIDS)
  • severe liver impairment (biopsy proven liver cirrhosis plus 1 of the following: portal hypertension or history of upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to portal hypertension or previous episodes of hepatic insufficiency/hepatic encephalopathy/hepatic coma
  • Age ≥ 80 years
Exclusion Criteria
  • Age <18 years
  • Pregnancy
  • surgery for palliative treatment
  • emergency procedure
  • refusal of consent
  • participation in another randomized controlled trial
  • failure to meet inclusion criteria

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of study participants with at least one complication of a composite of 30-day postinterventional complicationsup tp 90 days after study enrollment

composite of 30-day postinterventional complications defined according to the ESA-ESICM guidelines for definitions and use of outcome measures for clinical effectiveness research in perioperative medicine (acute kidney injury stage 1 or higher \[KIDGO\]; ARDS; anastomotic breakdown \[moderate and severe\]; arrhythmia \[severe\]; cardiac arrest; cardiogenic pulmonary oedema \[severe\]; deep vein thrombosis \[moderate and severe\]; delirium; GI bleeding \[severe\]; Infection, source uncertain \[severe\]; bloodstream infection \[severe\]; myocardial infarction \[severe\]; pneumonia \[severe\]; paralytic ileus \[severe\]; postoperative haemorrhage \[severe\]; pulmonary embolism \[severe\]; stroke \[severe\]; superficial, deep, organ/space surgical site infection \[severe\]; urinary tract infection \[severe\]; death)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
30-day-mortalityup to 30 days after study enrollment
90-day-mortalityup to 90 days after study enrollment
ICU length of stayup to 90 days after study enrollment
postoperative morbidity survey on days 3, 7, 14, 30up to 90 days after study enrollment
postoperative cognitive dysfunctionup to 90 days after study enrollment

from day 3 after surgical intervention

Biomarkers of the vascular function as prognostic parameters for immunological complications (syndecan 1, sphingosine 1-phosphate, asymmetric dimethylarginine [ADMA], symmetric dimethylarginine [SDMA], arginine, homoarginineup to 90 days after study enrollment
hospital length of stayup to 90 days after study enrollment
perioperative changes of primary metabolites [e. g. citric acid cycle, glycolysis, amino acids metabolism], lipid and phospholipid mediatorsup to 90 days after study enrollment
7-day-mortalityup to 7 days after study enrollment

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie, Zentrum für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Hamburg, Germany

Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie, Zentrum für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
🇩🇪Hamburg, Germany

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