Decision Support for Intraoperative Low Blood Pressure

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-12-29
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a decision support system can improve the adherence to thresholds for low blood pressure by anesthesia providers, which in turn prevents their patients from having organ injury.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Collaborator: UMC Utrecht
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Arginine Vasopressin; Atropine; Benzocaine; Bupivacaine; Chloroprocaine; Desflurane; Dobutamine; Dopamine; Ephedrine; Epinephrine; Glycopyrrolate; Isoflurane; Isoproterenol; Levobupivacaine; Lidocaine; Mepivacaine; Milrinone; Norepinephrine; Oxymetazoline; Pharmaceutical Solutions; Phenylephrine; Plasma-lyte 148; Prilocaine; Procaine; Propofol; Ropivacaine; Sevoflurane; Terlipressin; Tetracaine; Vasopressins

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 60 years and older

• Inpatients

• Scheduled for a non-cardiac surgical procedure under general or central neuraxial anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pre-existing end-stage renal disease: operationalized as a preoperative need for dialysis

• The following surgical procedures: renal surgery, cardiac surgery, organ transplantation, ophthalmic surgery, endoscopic gastrointestinal procedures, and (interventional) radiologic procedures.

• small non-invasive or minimally-invasive procedures will also be excluded, operationalized as excluding procedures with a surgical time of less than twenty minutes.