Lactic Acid Levels In Hypotensive Patients Without(Standard) and With Tourniquet

Sepsis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Lactic Acid Levels In Hypotensive Patients Without(Standard) and With Tourniquet

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00750516
• Other study ID #: 5625
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: September 2008
• Est. completion date: June 2009

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study seeks to determine whether the Lactic Acid blood level in a critically ill patient must be drawn with a non-tourniquet venipuncture. The null hypothesis is that there is no significant difference in Lactic Acid blood level in critically ill patients in a sample taken from either with a tourniquet or a non-tourniquet veni-puncture.

Monitoring of Lactic acid level is helpful in both identifying potentially serious ill patients as well as identifying in the ICU patients with high morbidity and mortality.

When a patient arrives to an Emergency Department and that patient is hypotensive (BP less than or equal to 90 systolic), the nursing staff often starts an IV and if possible draws the patient's initial blood tests off that first IV site; or if the patient has had an IV started in the field by EMS, the nursing staff will draw blood from another site using a tourniquet. This initial work up by the nursing staff takes 15 -20 minutes before a physician may see the patient. Since the present standard Lactic Acid test must be drawn either by arterial puncture or venipuncture without a tourniquet, this test is rarely done as part of their (the RNs) initial blood draws.

This simple impediment of needing to repeat the venipuncture without a tourniquet, especially in patients who often have venous access difficulty, delays the identification of appropriate patients for early and aggressive management- particularly those with sepsis.

Our hypothesis is that this requirement for a non-tourniquet blood draw is unnecessary.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: June 2009
• Est. primary completion date: June 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 120 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Blood pressure systolic of 90 or less

• Non pregnant by history

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant by history

• Comfort care only

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hypotension
• Sepsis

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Upstate Hospital Emergency Department	Syracuse	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
State University of New York - Upstate Medical University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Differences in hypotensive patients between the use of a tourniquet and non tourniquet sampling for Lactic Acid level.		At the initial evaluation of the patient