HILO-HF Registry: High Versus Low SpO2 Oxygen Therapy in Patients With Acute Heart Failure

University of Alberta

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Heart Failure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03110042

HILO-HF Registry

Details and patient eligibility

About

The HILO-HF Registry is a single centre registry that will be performed to provide information on the usual baseline oxygen saturation (SpO2) in patients presenting to ED with a primary ED diagnosis of AHF

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients >40 years of age presenting to the ED with AHF
• With or without tested BNP
• With or without admission to hospital for treatment of HF\
• Patients must be recruited within the first 24 hours of presenting to the ED.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients on home oxygen
• Patients with known prior hypercapnic failure (PaCO2>50 mmHg)
• Asthma
• Primary pulmonary hypertension
• Patients requiring urgent positive pressure ventilation or intubation or on >10 L/min oxygen

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Observational Cohort

Description:

All patients will receive usual standard of care with the heart failure management including the routine supplemental oxygen therapy.