Extracardiac Complications After Cardiac Surgery

University of Turin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Kidney Injury; Acute Lung Injury; Infections; Sepsis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01187004

82755

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypothesis of the study is that patients undergoing major cardiac surgery can develop extracardiac complications correlated to cardiopulmonary by pass.

Full description

To find out which are the main peri operative predictors of acute lung injury and other extracardiac complications, such as kidney injury, that prolonged Intensive Care Unit (ICU) length of stay after cardiac surgery. The main goal is to evaluate whether mechanical ventilation, in particular tidal volume, can be predictor of acute lung injure in this kind of patients.

Enrollment: 164 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cardiac intervention with cardiopulmonary by pass, age > 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• off-pump surgery, heart and lung transplantations, patients on mechanical ventilation before intervention or admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) before intervention.

Trial design

164 participants in 1 patient group

Acute Lung Injury (ALI)

Description:

patients who might develop acute lung injury (ALI) after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary by pass