Pre-operative Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography for Prediction of Post-operative Cardiac Complications

South Egypt Cancer Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diastolic Dysfunction

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPY

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04114474

transthoracic echocardiograpy

Details and patient eligibility

About

The extent focused transthoracic echocardiography when done pre-operatively to patients admitted for elective surgery and suspected to be at risk of cardiac disease specially the geriatric population can affect perioperative anesthetic management of these patients.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients above 60 years of age ASAI and ASA II were included

Exclusion criteria

• history of cardiac disease, history of previous postoperative cardiac complications and symptoms or signs of cardiac diseases.

Trial design