Comparison of Techniques for Assessing Cardiac Output and Preload in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients
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Official title
Comparison of Techniques for Assessing Cardiac Output and Preload in Critically Ill Patients
Brief summary
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Each year in the United States more than 30,000 children are admitted to intensive care units. The majority of these children have some degree of heart instability during their stay, yet there is currently no routine way to measure the actual amount of blood that the heart pumps. The ability to measure the amount of blood that the heart pumps accurately and easily at frequent intervals would be very helpful to the doctor caring for these children because many of them have poor heart function as a result of their illnesses. Current techniques used in adults to measure output of the heart are either not readily transferred to children or demand difficult invasive procedures. Because of this, the amount of blood that the heart pumps cannot be measured with enough frequency to help guide care. Despite this reality, accurate measurements of the amount of blood that the heart pumps in these patients at crucial points in their illnesses would allow for more accurate use of potentially harmful procedures and could possibly improve the outlook for these children. Likewise, being able to correctly measure blood volume could provide a better way to estimate the pressure on the heart and improve treatment. The purpose of this research study is to compare the accuracy of doctor estimates of heart output, and establish the usefulness of central blood volume measurements by PCOM (pediatric cardiac output measurements), a less invasive procedure
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00167440
- Recruitment status
- Withdrawn
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- Not listed
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- Up to 16 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 31, 2004
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2008
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2008
- Last update posted
- Nov 25, 2015
2004 – 2008
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Rochester | Rochester | New York | 14642 | — |
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