Prediction of the Effect of Fluid Administration Using Arterial Pressure and Ventilator Data During Abdominal Surgery

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypovolemia; Fluid Overload

Treatments: Other: Series of ventilator settings

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04298931

1-10-72-245-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is well known, that patients with circulatory impairment sometimes, but not always, benefit from intravenous fluids. Predicting if a fluid administration will improve circulation is therefore of substantial clinical interest.

Ventilator treatment induces cyclic variation in blood pressure due to interaction between the lungs and the heart. This variation is minor, but its amplitude may be used for guiding fluid administration.

However, this method of using ventilator-induced variation in blood pressure to predict the effect of fluid administration was developed when different settings for ventilator treatment was recommended, compared with today. With today's recommend ventilator treatment, the method is, unfortunately, less reliable.

The investigators will investigate how different ventilator settings influence variation in blood pressure, and the investigators will test if this knowledge allows us to better predict the effect of a fluid administration, by taking the ventilator settings into account.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled open abdominal surgery.
• Scheduled treatment with Aarhus University Hospital's goal-directed therapy protocol (hemodynamic monitoring).

Exclusion criteria

• Left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 40 %
• Irregular heart rhythm (e.g. atrial fibrillation or frequent ectopic beats)
• Known right ventricular dysfunction (if reported qualitatively in pre-operative assessment or objectively via Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE) < 17 mm)
• Pregnancy
• Prior participation in this study

Trial design

52 participants in 1 patient group

Patients undergoing open abdominal surgery

Treatment:

Other: Series of ventilator settings