AI-Guided Predictions of Blood Pressure Dysregulation Using Perfusion Index as a Novel Biomarker in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 24
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Perfusion Index (PI)
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if perfusion index (PI) can reliably predict changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) during a cool temperature challenge. Participants with SCI can be 18-75 years of age, male or female, neurological level of injury C4-T12, ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS: A or B: motor complete) or gender and healthy age-matched able-bodied (AB) controls.
The main question this study aims to answer is: can PI reliably predict change in SBP during a cool temperature challenge? The investigators hypothesize that PI can be used as a biomarker of SBP in persons with SCI.
Researchers will compare the relationship of 1) changes in PI and SBP and 2) relationship of changes in other vital signs to SBP, during the cool temperature challenge. The researchers aim to determine if PI can be used as a biomarker of SBP in persons with SCI during a cool temperature challenge (experimental group/arm). Able-bodied controls (control group/arm) will receive the same intervention (cool challenge) as the experimental group.
During the study, participants will be asked to wear only shorts and a T-shirt so that their skin can be exposed to the warm and cool temperatures of the 2 rooms.
The investigators will put put on non-invasive sensors (taped or attached on the surface of your body) to measure PI, BP, and other vital signs. The investigators will record these measurements while the participant is seated in a wheelchair for 10 minutes in a warm room and up to 90 minutes in a cool room.
详细描述
Introduction/Background: Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) may experience impaired control of several autonomic functions, including blood pressure (BP) fluctuations and impaired body temperature regulation in response to exercise, cold exposure, or a full bladder. Hypertension (high BP) is commonly episodic (comes and goes) and without clinical symptoms (the person is unaware). Mechanisms for impaired BP regulation after SCI are not completely understood and contribute to the limited availability of reliable wearable devices for continuous BP monitoring in the community.
Purpose of the Study: By doing this research study, the investigators hope to learn how perfusion index (PI) and the other measured vital signs, respond to moving from the warm to cool room. The investigators will use sophisticated analysis of the data collected, which will include artificial intelligence, to determine how perfusion index can predict changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP).
The investigators have shown that PI can predict SBP (the greater of the 2 BP values, e.g., 120/80 mmHg) with high accuracy in animal studies of monkeys with SCI. Perfusion index can continuously measure (non-stop measuring) the blood flow in the skin using a pulse-oximeter (pulse oxygen meter) and other sensors on your skin. This new tool can help us to better understand why blood pressure is so unstable (goes quickly up and down) after SCI. The findings may also provide necessary information for developing new non-invasive and wearable devices to monitor blood pressure in the community, thereby allowing persons with SCI early detection, safety, and treatment of clinically silent high blood pressure episodes (episodes that you're not aware of).
Study Procedures: When the participant arrives, the investigators will take the their temperature with an ear thermometer to make sure they don't have a fever. If the participant is having a urinary tract infection (UTI), please call before traveling to the Center. Once at the Center, the investigators will use about 30 minutes in a mildly warm room (75-80 deg F) to tape temperature sensors to the participant's forehead (to measure their body temperature). The investigators will put oxygen meters on the participant's ear, finger and toe to measure perfusion index (PI: a ratio or percentage of blood flowing in your arteries compared to blood not flowing very much in your veins and tissues). The investigators will place a device on another finger that measures beat-to-beat BP device (your BP of every heartbeat).
Once the instrument setup is complete, the participant will remain seated in the wheelchair (or the investigators will provide them with one if they are an AB control) and will take the above measures for 10 minutes. Then, the investigators will move the participant into a cool room (64 deg F) for 90 minutes and continue the same measurements.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 75 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •The participant had a spinal cord injury (SCI: C4-T12) for more than one year and the SCI was graded as ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS) A or B (unable to voluntarily move your legs)
- •The participant can also be a gender and age-matched (±5 years) able-bodied (AB) control subject (similar gender and age to a subject with SCI).
- •Subjects with SCI and AB controls must be between 18 and 75 years of age.
- •If the participant are going to do the study, they must avoid caffeine and alcohol, maintain normal salt and water intake, and avoid strenuous exercise for 24 hours prior to the study visit.
排除标准
- •The participant has cardiovascular, kidney, or untreated thyroid disease
- •The participant has had a traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- •The participant has diabetes mellitus
- •The participant has an acute illness or infection
- •The participant is dehydrated
- •The participant smokes
- •The participant is pregnant
- •The participant has broken, inflamed, or otherwise fragile skin
- •The participant's Body Mass Index (BMI) is more than 30 kg/m2
研究组 & 干预措施
Participants with SCI: Cool temperature challenge
Participants with SCI will be transferred from a thermoneutral room (27°C) to a cool thermal chamber (18°C) for up to 90 minutes to determine change in 1) perfusion index and 2) systolic blood pressure.
干预措施: Controlled Cool Thermal Challenge (18°C) (Other)
Able-bodied participants (Control): Cool temperature challenge
Able-bodied participants will be transferred from a thermoneutral room (27°C) to a cool thermal chamber (18°C) for up to 90 minutes to determine change in 1) perfusion index and 2) systolic blood pressure.
干预措施: Controlled Cool Thermal Challenge (18°C) (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Perfusion Index (PI)
时间窗: Continuously recorded during 10 minutes of the baseline thermoneutral (27°C) phase and throughout the cool thermal challenge (18°C) phase for up to 90 minutes.
Perfusion index (PI: ranging from 0.02 to 20) reflects the ratio of pulsatile (arterial) blood flow to non-pulsatile static blood flow. PI will be continuously collected using Masimo Radical-7 pulse oximeters (Masimo Corp., Irvine, CA) attached to three sites: an ear, a finger, and a toe. This multi-site data will serve as the primary independent predictor variable of SBP in the AI/machine learning models.
Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP)
时间窗: Continuously recorded during 10 minutes of the baseline thermoneutral (27°C) phase and throughout the cool thermal challenge (18°C) phase for up to 90 minutes.
Beat-to-beat systolic blood pressure (SBP: mmHg) will be continuously collected via a finger-cuff sensor using the VitalStream-CM wireless hemodynamic monitor (CareTaker Medical LLC, Charlottesville, VA). SBP will serve as the primary target dependent variable that the investigators are trying to predict to evaluate sympathetic/vascular reactivity and to train the non-invasive machine learning prediction algorithms.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Jill M. Wecht, Ed.D.
Principal Investigator
James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center