Objectives: To investigate whether respiratory variations of inferior vena cava diameters (cIVC) predict fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing patients with septic acute circulatory failure and irregular heartbeats. Design: Prospective, bicentric study, intensive care units. Patients and measures: Spontaneously breathing patients with sepsis and clinical signs of acute circulatory failure are included. A positive response to fluid loading (FL) is defined as an increase of the stroke volume (SV) \>10%. The investigators measured the minimum inspiratory and maximum expiratory diameters of the IVC (idIVC and edIVC) during standardized (st) and unstandardized (ns) breathing. The investigators calculated cIVCst and cIVCns before a 500ml-colloid FL.
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respiratory variations in inferior vena cava diameters with respect to the response to fluid resuscitation, assessed by the area under the ROC curve
Timeframe: during 30 minutes of the volume expansion