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Filter by:Shock is a serious complication corresponding to acute circulatory failure resulting in multiorgan failure and death. In order to improve cellular oxygen utilization, several therapies can be used. To select one of them, the monitoring of cardiac output is helpful. However, there are several methods used in current practice in intensive care for evaluating hemodynamic. Currently, in patients with acute circulatory failure, no study has compared the concordance of therapeutic decision-making based on transpulmonary thermodilution or transthoracic echocardiography. The objective of the PICC-ECHO study is thus to assess the concordance of therapeutic decision-making by several experts, based on data from transpulmonary thermodilution or transthoracic echocardiography. Indeed, the investigators hypothesize that performing hemodynamic monitoring based on transpulmonary thermodilution or transthoracic echocardiography does not lead to the same therapeutic management in patients in shock.
Fluid administration is one of the main strategies for patients with acute circulatory failure. However, about half of the patients could not benefit from the fluid administration after the ICU admission. Thus predict the effect of fluid responsiveness is essential. There are sevral indices or tests can be used, such as pulse pressure variation (PPV), end-expiratory occulsion test (EEOT), passive leg raising (PLR), etc. Question of the prevalence of cases in which the different predictive indices of fluid responsiveness in intensive care unit (ICU) are not applicable.
Haemodynamic optimisation is a fundamental step and a daily issue in the management of intensive care patients with acute circulatory failure. Failure to optimise haemodynamics is recognised as a factor associated with morbidity and mortality. Although the first line of treatment is often vascular filling, many studies have found that excessive vascular filling alone is deleterious and leads to increased morbidity and mortality due to pulmonary and interstitial oedema. The use of catecholamines avoids this undue vascular filling. At present, the therapeutic strategy in acute circulatory failure is to perform a personalised "titrated" vascular filling after assessing the need for it. To do this, predictive criteria for the need to continue vascular filling in order to optimise cardiac output and tissue perfusion pressure, particularly by ultrasound, have been developed, notably by transesophageal approach. It also appeared to us that offering an alternative to the transesophageal approach would reduce invasiveness on the one hand, but would also offer an alternative when the transesophageal approach is contraindicated.
Sepsis is a common life-threatening inflammatory response to infection and is the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit. Septic patients exhibit a complex immunosuppressive response affecting both innate and adaptive components of immunity, with a possible link to nosocomial infections. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms resulting in secondary immunosuppression remain poorly understood, but may involve the antigen-presenting cells (APC, including dendritic cells and monocytes/macrophages) that link innate and adaptive immunity. Furthermore, the increasing phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of APC subsets raise the question of their respective role in sepsis. We propose to address the pathophysiologal role of APC using systems biology approaches in human sepsis. The objective is to go from low- to high-resolution analysis of APC subset diversity and underlying molecular and functional features in sepsis. The global objective will be reached through: 1. Systematic description and phenotypic analysis of circulating APC subsets in sepsis 2. Association of APC subsets distribution, phenotype and function with severe sepsis physiopathology and relevant clinical outcomes (ICU-acquired infections and death) 3. High-resolution molecular profiling of circulating APC subsets using population level and single cell RNAseq. To this aim, the investigator designed a prospective interventional study in order to collect blood samples at significant time points in patients with sepsis or septic shock (the population of interest) and relevant control subjects, either critically ill patients with non-septic acute circulatory failure or age-matched healthy subjects. The study's intervention is limited to additional blood samples. The risks and constraints are related to additional blood samples (maximum 120mL), which will be performed either from an arterial catheter when present in ICU patients, or from a venous puncture for patients without arterial catheters and for healthy volunteers.
In order to identify the responding patients with vascular filling test, this research aims to compare the performance of the increased flow in the femoral artery to the performance of the blood pressure increase. The reference measurement will increase cardiac output measured by ultrasound.