Suitability of PICC for Transpulmonary Thermodilution Compared to CICC

Institute of Hospitalization and Scientific Care (IRCCS)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters; Transpulmonary Thermodilution; CVC; Hemodynamic Monitoring

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: transpulmonary thermodilution

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03834675

PICC -CICC for TPTD

Details and patient eligibility

About

Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are increasingly used in intensive care unit (ICU) as an alternative to centrally inserted central catheters (CICCs) for intravenous infusion. In the present study we try to assess their reliability for measuring cardiac index (CI) with trans-pulmonary thermodilution (TPTD) technique.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients (≥18 years) admitted to the ICU
• Patients requiring hemodynamic monitoring using EV1000TM
• Patients having both PICC and CICC in place (these patients had their PICC replaced with a CICC, usually at the time of ICU admission, or vice versa, usually at the end of their ICU stay, and were enrolled immediately after the placement of the new device before the previous one was removed)

Exclusion criteria

• body weight <40 kg
• severe aortic regurgitation or intra-cardiac shunt
• treatment with an intra-aortic balloon pump
• contraindication for placement of PICC, CICC or a femoral arterial catheter
• abdominal aneurism
• extracorporeal circulation
• pregnancy
• lack of informed consent