Respiratory Variations For Predicting Fluid Responsiveness 2
France55 participantsStarted 2012-05
Plain-language summary
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.
Who can participate
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Adult patients of the intensive care units of the Lille university-hospital and of the Valencienne general hospital.
* Age greater than or equal to 18.
* Patient insured
* Spontaneous breathing without ventilatory support or intubation or tracheotomy.
* Irregular cardiac rhythm
* Prescription by the physician in charge of the patients of a 500 mL volume expansion in less than 30 minutes.
* Patients with sepsis with at least one sign of acute circulatory failure:
* Tachycardia with heart rate\> 100/min
* systolic blood pressure \<90mmHg or a decrease \>40mmHg in previously hypertense patient
* Oliguria \<0.5ml/kg/hour for at least one hour
* skin mottling
Exclusion Criteria:
* high-grade aortic insufficiency
* transthoracic echogenicity unsuitable for measuring the stroke volume or inferior vena cava diameters
* clinical signs of active exhalation
* clinical or ultrasonographic evidence of pulmonary edema due to heart failure
* pregnancy
* abdominal compartment syndrome
* regular cardiac rhythm
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What they're measuring
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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