A Simple Clinical Tool to Help Assess Patient Volume (Fluid) Status

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sepsis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00599794

05-004138

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients may have actual or relative intravascular volume depletion in a number of different disease states, particularly with sepsis syndrome. However, it is clinically difficult to determine volume status without invasive monitoring, which may cause unintended complications. Our hypothesis is that we can accurately estimate central venous pressure, which is a surrogate marker of volume status, with a noninvasive portable ultrasound device.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 or older.
• Healthy, euvolemic volunteers and critically ill patients who are already in an intensive care unit and who will have a central venous catheter placed as part of their planned medical treatment.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to use ultrasound to measure jugular vein (neck brace or bandage), "code" situation.

Trial design

84 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

Healty volunteers who are euvolemic.

2

Description:

Critically ill patients who will be having a central venous catheter with a monitor to measure central venous pressure placed as part of their planned care independent of this study.