Variation of Echocardiographic Parameters After Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Emergency Department Anemic Patients (Trans-US)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Anemia; Ultrasonography; Age Problem

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: transthoracic echocardiography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06060639

2023-A01236-39

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional study is to asses echocardiographic variations in emergency department's elderly patients receiving red blood cell transfusion. The main questions it aims to answer are :

• is there a modification of echocardiographic parameters after red blood cell transfusion ?
• which parameter is the most impacted by red blood cell transfusion ? Participants will have a transthoracic echocardiography before, just after and 15 minutes after red blood cell transfusion.

Enrollment: 116 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient needing red blood cell transfusion
• consent
• social protection

Exclusion criteria

• fluid filing over 500 mL of crystalloids
• transfusion in the last hour

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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116 participants in 1 patient group

transfused patients

Experimental group

Description:

patients receiving red blood cell transfusion

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: transthoracic echocardiography