Clinical Trial of Standard Versus Goal-Directed Perioperative Fluid Management (GDT) for Patients Undergoing Liver Resection
Liver Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Liver Cancer focused on measuring Perioperative Fluid Management, liver resection, 12-056
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults (18 years old or greater) who are able to provide informed consent.
- Patients who undergo an open, elective liver resection. Including those initially approached laparoscopically but converted to an open resection and those undergoing additional procedures.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active coronary disease.
- Patients with a history of coronary disease will be eligible if they have had a cardiac stress study showing no reversible ischemia and normal LV function within 3 months of operation.
- Active symptomatic cerebrovascular disease.
- Active congestive heart failure and ejection fraction <35%.
- Active severe restrictive or obstructive pulmonary disease and resting SpO2 <90%.
- Active renal dysfunction (Cr >1.8)
- Abnormal coagulation parameters (INR > 1.8 not on Coumadin, or platelet count < 100,000 per mcL)
- Presence of active infection including HIV
- Patients with active atrial fibrillation or flutter.
- Preoperative hypoalbuminemia (Albumin < 2g/dl).
- Female patients who are pregnant (female patients of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test ≤ 14 days prior to surgery or 15 to 30 days prior to surgery with a negative urine pregnancy test the morning of surgery).
- Presence of ascites.
- BMI > 45 or <17
Sites / Locations
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Standard fluid management
Goal directed fluid therapy
Prospective single-blinded randomized trial. Eligible patients will be consented for the trial prior to surgery. However randomization will not occur until the operating room. After the liver has been resected, intraoperative randomization will be done by envelopes.
Prospective single-blinded randomized trial. Eligible patients will be consented for the trial prior to surgery. However randomization will not occur until the operating room. After the liver has been resected, intraoperative randomization will be done by envelopes.