Actively Recruiting
Fluid-responsiveness Assessment Simplified by Electric Cardiometry in Children
Led by University Hospital, Bordeaux · Updated on 2026-04-13
42
Participants Needed
4
Research Sites
108 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
In this study of diagnostic accuracy, the investigators aim to validate a faster, simpler, and noninvasive test of fluid-responsiveness in critically ill children. This test is based on an assessment of the hemodynamic effects of a standardized abdominal compression, using electrical cardiometry. This would help physicians to identify more easily which patient could benefit from a volume expansion, thus avoiding a potentially useless or even dangerous fluid expansion that could lead to fluid overload. To this end, the diagnostic accuracy of electrical cardiometry-based stroke volume (SV) variation induced by a standardized abdominal compression to predict fluid responsiveness (define as a 15% increase in echocardiographically measured SV after volume expansion) will be measured.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Fluid-responsiveness Assessment Simplified by Electric Cardiometry in Children
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age less than or equal to 8 years old
- Hospitalization in a pediatric intensive care unit
- Prescription by the attending physician of a fluid expansion of 10ml/kg
- Use of a non-invasive cardiac output monitoring device (electrical cardiometry) as part of routine care
You will not qualify if you...
- Patient less than 37 weeks' corrected gestational age
- Hemodynamic instability making the delay necessary for any test dangerous
- Supine position contraindicated or deleterious
- Impairment of echocardiographic acoustic window or restless patient making ultrasonography impossible
- Opposition to participate expressed by the patient or by a parent or legal guardian
- Intra-abdominal hypertension, painful abdominal palpation or abdominal surgery in the last 15 days
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 4 locations
1
Hôpital Marie Lannelongue
Le Plessis-Robinson, France, France, 92350
Not Yet Recruiting
2
Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve - CHU de Montpellier
Montpellier, France, France, 34295
Not Yet Recruiting
3
Hôpital mère-enfant - CHU de Nantes
Nantes, France, France, 44093
Not Yet Recruiting
4
Hôpital Cardiologique Haut Lévêque - CHU de Bordeaux
Pessac, France, France, 33600
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
J
Julien GOTCHAC, MD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
N/A
Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
1
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