To evaluate the role of electrical cardiometry for assessing response to fluid administration by measuring cardiac output before and after raising the leg in patients with sudden fall in blood pressure or with signs of low blood pressure and to compare it with transthoracic echocardiography
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: I959- Hypotension, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/03/031921
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Anaesthesiology Pain Medicine and Critical Care AIIMS NEW DELHI
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Patients (18-65 years) with an arterial catheter in situ, on controlled mechanical ventilation and at least one of the following signs of circulatory failure:
1.systolic blood pressure <= 90 mmHg or fall > 50 mm Hg in previously hypertensive patients
2.The requirement of vasopressor drugs
3.urine output <= 0.5 ml/kg/hr during at least two hours
4.Heart rate > 100 beats/minute
5.Presence of skin mottling or delayed capillary refilling ( > 3 seconds)
1. age <18 years and >65 years
2. pregnancy
3. patient with arrhythmias
4. known case of heart failure on treatment
5. patients with lower limb amputation
6. patient with valvular heart diseases
7. contraindications to performing PLR (Lower limb DVT, Limb/pelvic fracture, abdominal surgeries, intra-abdominal hypertension, intracranial hypertension
8. presence of wound/dressing in the neck
9. difficulty in getting adequate echo window (morbid obese[BMI > 40 Kg/square metre],chest wall trauma)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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