NCT01662141

Measure Cardiac Output Using Ultrasound Dilution in Mechanically Ventilated Children

Investigation of the Reliability to Measure Cardiac Output by a New Ultrasound Dilution Method in Mechanically Ventilated Children After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 33 (actual)
• Sponsor: Transonic Systems Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The measurement of cardiac output (CO) and hemodynamic pressures are vital for proper management of severely hemodynamic compromised patients. A new ultrasound dilution method (COstatus) for cardiac output measurement has been developed.

Detailed description

The thermodilution technique with a pulmonary artery catheter has been the standard in adult patients for cardiac output measurement. However, using pulmonary artery catheter remains a major clinical problem in children due to technical and size constraints. COstatus measures changes in blood ultrasound velocity in an extracorporeal AV loop caused by body-temperature isotonic saline injected into the central vein and calculates cardiac output derived from a dilution curve.

Conditions

• Post Cardiac Surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2011-09-01
• First posted: 2012-08-10
• Last updated: 2012-08-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden