Efficacy of Preemptive Volume Loading to Prevent Arterial Hypotension During Induction of General Anesthesia

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2014-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Induction of general anesthesia induces frequently arterial hypotension. The short term goal of this study is to evaluate if preemptive volume loading prevents such complication.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hopital Foch
• Treatments: Anesthetics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients undergoing elective surgery.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Difficult peripheral venous access

• Allergy to gelatin

• Symptomatic cardiac disease, rhythm trouble, pace-maker, aortic valvular disease, aortic disease

• Morbid obesity, low BMI,

• hypovolemia,

• Raynaud syndrome or scleroderma,

• Contra-indication to propofol, remifentanil or to the use of Bispectral Index,

• Hematocrit < 20%.