Fluid Responsiveness in the Postoperative Patient: a Prospective Study

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2017-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Fluid Responsiveness (FR) (SV increases by at least 15% after Volume Expansion, VE) in postoperative patients admitted on a surgical ward after elective abdominal, thoracic and esophageal surgery

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: McGill University Health Center; McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
• Treatments: Pharmaceutical Solutions

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing major elective thoracic and abdominal surgeries, the latter group including upper gastrointestinal, esophageal, and colorectal procedures,

• Patients treated with surgery-specific enhanced recovery programs (ERPs), implemented in 2010 at the Montreal General Hospital for colorectal surgery, and subsequently developed at the same institution for thoracic surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age <18 years

• Emergency surgery

• Patients who do not understand, read or communicate in either French or English

• Chronic kidney disease

• Congestive heart failure

• Severe aortic stenosis

• Patients not in sinus rhythm

• Patients requiring fluid restriction for any reason

• Known peripheral vascular disease or Raynaud's phenomenon

• Septic patients

• Acute circulatory shock