Capillary Refill Time Calculated With a Video-assisted Method Has a Better Reproducibility Than Visual Method in Critically Ill Patients (EVITREC)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mortality; Intensive Care Unit; Reliability

Treatments: Other: video assisted cutaneous recoloration; Other: time of cutaneous recoloration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05573659

PI2022_843_0026

Details and patient eligibility

About

Capillary refill time is the time it takes for the skin to regain its initial colour after moderate pressure. It is usually performed on the patient index finger, middle finger or ring finger with the examiner's thumb and index finger for five seconds, three measurements having to be averaged. Capillary refill time has a dependent operator character, but it has been shown to be accurately correlated with 14-day mortality in septic shock, hospitalisation need in pediatric population.

The purpose of this project is to show that capillary refill time obtained by a video-assisted method has a better inter- and intra-observer reproducibility than capillary refill time obtained by a visual method.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age > 18 years
• hospitalized in ICU
• Patient or Family /relative with Inclusion Authorization

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant or lactating women
• Under protection (guardianship, curators, reinforced curators)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

video-assisted capillary refill time.

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: video assisted cutaneous recoloration

visual capillary refill time.

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: time of cutaneous recoloration