Active clinical trials for "Hypovolemia"

Accurate assessment of fluid responsiveness (FRes) is central to guiding fluid management in septic and critically ill patients. As evidence accumulates that both inadequate and excessive fluid resuscitation are associated with increased morbidity and mortality, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly clear that current widely used methods to predict FRes are of questionable accuracy. The optimal technique to predict FRes would be a non-invasive point-of-care test with not only a high degree of accuracy, but also one which requires minimal training to perform correctly and may be easily performed repeatedly for serial evaluation of FRes during the ongoing management of the critically ill patient. To date, three major ultrasonographic modalities have emerged as viable candidates for the bedside assessment of FRes: 1) measurement of dynamic changes in inferior vena caval diameter (IVC-CI), 2) measurement of dynamic changes in peripheral arterial waveform derived variables (PA Doppler), and 3) echocardiographic measurement of dynamic changes in left ventricular outflow tract waveform derived variables (LVOT Doppler). In this study, the investigators will perform the first direct comparison of techniques representing all three of the above modalities in the prediction of FRes against a non-invasive bioreactance cardiac output monitor (the Cheetah NICOM™), which has been extensively validated against gold-standard invasive methods of cardiac output measurement. The investigators will compare the accuracy of these modalities in both spontaneously breathing and mechanically ventilated patients using passive leg raise testing (PLR) as a surrogate for volume challenge. In addition, the investigators will also elicit information from the treating physician(s) on their clinical assessment of FRes. The investigators will recruit adult patients in the ED and ICU with sepsis, who have received an initial bolus of 20-30 cc/kg of IV fluid, and can tolerate the PLR and US procedures. Prior to US and NICOM measurement, investigators will ask the attending physician managing the patient regarding their assessment of the their fluid status. Then, separate investigators will perform US and NICOM measurements independently to ensure blinding. NICOM data, which has been well validated in septic patients, will be shared with the attending physician. They will then be asked if this new data will change management.

Intraoperative hemodynamic management is important, since even mild variations in circulatory volume can be extremely damaging for patients. Minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring are not always available or cost-effective, therefore management of fluids is challenging for anesthesiologists. This study aims to assess if, after performance of a lung recruitment maneuver (LRM), standard parameter's variation differs between hypovolemic and normovolemic patients. Patients' volemic state will be assessed with the Vigileo system. Standard monitoring values (heart rate, invasive blood pressure and saturation) will be registered before and after LRMs. A fluid challenge will be performed and the above mentioned parameters will be recorded again, after a second LRM. The study is a prospective observational study.

The elliptic shape of inferior vena cava (IVC) sections, while hindering the ultrasound measurement of IVC diameter, may provide a useful tool to estimate central venous pressure (CVP). Hypothetically, the higher is CVP and more the ratio R between minimum and maximum diameters approximates 1. The purpose of this study is to determine R values in four different sections before and after a fluid load test, in order to evaluate if R is affected by the test and at which level the variation is larger. The secondary endpoint is to search for the parameter best predictive of the positivity of the fluid load test among IVC minimum and maximum diameters, eccentricity, section area, and blood velocity at the level that presented the largest variations after the fluid load.

This prospective observational study aims to (i) asses intensive care doctors trigger for and the expected physiological response to a fluid bolus and (ii) evaluate the patient's actual physiological response to a single fluid bolus at one hour post-bolus for 100 adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit will be included in the study.

A prospective, 2-arm, single-blind, randomized controlled clinical feasibility trial design is planned. Forty CCI survivors will be randomized (1:1) to either the PS-PICS (peer support) intervention or usual care (control) group.

In high perioperative risk patients, guidelines suggest intraoperative haemodynamic optimization by measurement of stroke volume (SV) to guide fluid resucitation.This strategy requires an invasive monitoring and learning. Some studies tried to find SV surrogates based on haemodynamic usual parameters. In an experimental hemorrhagic shock, SV was correlated to the pulse pressure (PP) / heart rate (HR) ratio. The investigators hypothesized that SV variations (ΔSV) would be correlated to the PP/HR ratio variations (ΔPP / HR) during fluid challenge, and ΔPP / HR would be able to detect a ΔSV greater than 10%.

The aim of the study is to analyze if blood protein concentration variation during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) with fluid removal can predict a decrease of 15 % of cardiac index in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Blood protein concentration, clinical data describing hemodynamic status (providing data from Pulsion medical system PiCCO2 ® monitoring), including preload dependency evaluation with passive leg raising, are collected at different times: before initiation of fluid removal, and after the first episode of hypotension or one hour after initiation of fluid removal.

Fluid overload increases morbidity and mortality of pediatrics patients in intensive care unit (ICU). It could be interesting to predict the decrease in stroke volume when diuretics are prescribed. Nevertheless, no test predict a decrease of stroke volume in a context of a diuretics induced depletion. Abdominal compression (AC) coupled with echocardiographic measurement of the stroke volume can predict fluid responsiveness and is a good tool to assess preload dependency. Another point is that during depletion refilling can occur. We aim to assess the diagnostic accuracy of abdominal compression to predict a decrease of the stroke volume of 15 % during diuretic-induced depletion of 10 ml/kg of diuresis. Secondary outcome will assess the hemoconcentration during depletion to diagnose a decrease of stroke volume during diuretic induced depletion

The purpose of this study is to verify any existing relationship between mixed oxygen saturation (from central venous catheter) and urinary sodium, potassium, chloride in determining the volemic state and renal perfusion of patients undergoing major surgical interventions.

The purpose of this study is to verify any existing relationship between urinary parameters (such as excretion of sodium, chlorine, urinary partial CO2 pressure [PuCO2]) and general volemic indicators (such as PiCCO, ScvO2, O2 delivery) during liver transplant.