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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02846948
Date of registration: 25/07/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
Public title: The Impact of Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography in Urgent Abdominal Surgery for Septic Patients ECHOCARD
Scientific title: The Impact of Extended Hemodynamic Monitoring by Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography in Urgent Abdominal Surgery for Septic Patients
Date of first enrolment: January 2016
Target sample size: 131
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02846948
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Single (Participant).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Lithuania
Contacts
Name:     Andrius Macas, profesor
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Affiliation:  Lithuanian university of health sciencies
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age more than 18 years old.

- Patients undergoing urgent abdominal surgery due to diffuse peritonitis.

- SOFA score >2.

- Patients who sign an agreement to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Younger than 18 years old.

- Known pregnancy.

- Unconscious patients or those who do not agree to participate in the study.

- Contraindication to central venous or arterial catheterization.

- Patients who were already treated in ICU because of sepsis or septic shock before this
surgery.

- Known chronic renal failure.

- Re-laparotomy.

- Peritonitis due to acute mesenteric ischaemia, thrombosis or trauma.

- Dying patients.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Hypovolemia
Sepsis
Peritonitis
Intervention(s)
Other: Focused assessed echocardiography
Primary Outcome(s)
Inpatient mortality in both treatment arms. [Time Frame: 30 days intra-hospital mortality]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Number of ICU-Free days. [Time Frame: up to 30 days]
Comparison of fluid management in both arms (from hospitalisation to the surgery, during the surgery, after the surgery up to 24 hours). [Time Frame: up to 24 hours]
Comparison of incidence of severe hypotension MAP <65 mmHg after anaesthesia induction in both arms. [Time Frame: 1-5 minutes after anaesthesia induction.]
Comparison of septic shock incidence in both arms. [Time Frame: up to 30 days]
Secondary ID(s)
MIP051/2015
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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