Cardiac Function in Severe Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Patients (SPLASH)

Nantes University Hospital (NUH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage; World Neurosurgeon Federation Score ≥ III

Treatments: Procedure: Echocardiography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01801800

RC12_0410

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cardiac dysfunction can occur in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage and might impact patient's neurologic outcome Condition Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage World Neurosurgeon Federation Score ≥ III

Full description

Trans-thoracic echocardiography on day 1, day 3 and day 7 Speckle-Tracking of echocardiographic loops by a cardiologist blinded to the patient's management and outcome

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
• World Neurosurgeon Federation Score ≥ III
• Written information to next-of-kin and patients when possible

Exclusion criteria

• History of myocardial infarction, chronic heart failure with NYHA ≥ 2, major heart surgery
• Lack of acoustic window to perform trans-thoracic echocardiography

Trial design

80 participants in 1 patient group

Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

Description:

Speckle-tracking images in Echocardiography

Treatment:

Procedure: Echocardiography