Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04114032
BNP Evaluation Before Surgery Study: an Observational Study of Natriuretic Peptide Levels Prior to Surgery.
Evaluating Perioperative Interventions to Improve Patient outComes (EPIC-2): BNP Evaluation Before Surgery Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 174 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Cape Town · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 45 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
A prospective, multi-centre, observational study of preoperative natriuretic peptide testing for patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery conducted over four weeks.
Detailed description
Identification of high-risk surgical patients requires risk stratification. Current clinical risk stratification tools, e.g. Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI), only have a moderate ability to identify these patients. International guidelines, like Canadian Cardiovascular Society on perioperative cardiovascular risk assessment, advocate that all patients 45 yrs and older or patients \>18y rs who have significant cardiovascular disease and who are coming for intermediate to high-risk surgery, should get natriuretic peptide (NP) testing. This is because raised preoperative B-type natriuretic peptides have a strong association with postoperative cardiac complications according to observational studies and meta-analyses. However, in these patients with significant cardiovascular disease coming for intermediate to high-risk surgery it is unknown how many patients will actually have raised B-type natriuretic peptides. That is, which group of patients have an even higher risk in this already high-risk group. Natriuretic peptide (NP) testing is also expensive. Further identification of patients that need NP testing will reduce costs and focus efforts on those patients who really need it.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2019-10-14
- Primary completion
- 2020-04-01
- Completion
- 2020-04-29
- First posted
- 2019-10-03
- Last updated
- 2020-05-07
Locations
1 site across 1 country: South Africa
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04114032. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.