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Filter by:The overall purpose of this protocol is to identify subacute sepsis-associated cardiac disease in pediatric patients with cancer by CMR and evaluate the CMR findings during their follow-up. This will help inform heart failure management decision making. Evidence of dysfunction or elevated T2 values may inform adjustment of afterload reduction and beta blocker administration, and elevated ECV findings will suggest the need for increased surveillance for diastolic dysfunction. Primary Objectives: (Feasibility Phase) To determine the feasibility of cardiac MRI without anesthesia in the immediate post-sepsis period in children with cancer. CMR scanning will be completed within 10 days of presentation - this will allow us to ensure that possible hemodynamic or respiratory instability and renal dysfunction has resolved prior to transport to the MRI scanner during the most acute phase of illness. (Completion Phase) To estimate the frequency of subacute sepsis-associated cardiac disease, including myocardial inflammation and dysfunction, in the post-acute phase (within 10 days of presentation) of severe sepsis in children with cancer
This is an open-label, single center, trial that will enroll up to 25 participants with circulatory shock after cardiac surgery. Participants will be administered a topical sublingual nitroglycerin solution and assessed for changes microcirculatory blood flow using incident dark field microscopy.
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can temporarily help patients gain time to wait for cardiopulmonary recovery or further treatment in patients with cardiopulmonary failure. Whether the blood flow provided by the ECMO can maintain the perfusion of various organs is an important factor affecting survival. Some ECMO patients died after the complication of sepsis. Our previous pilot analysis has recognized several ECMO patients with complicated sepsis has high endotoxin activity level. Endotoxemia can also occur in heart surgery and after cardiopulmonary bypass, trauma, organ transplantation, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. These trials used endotoxin activity analysis (EAA, EAATM, Spectral Diagnostics Inc., Canada) to analyze endotoxin activity. In addition, studies have indicated that the combination of procalcitonin (PCT) concentration and EAA activity can improve the accuracy of predicting sepsis. The primary aim of this study is to detect endotoxin activity in patients with ECMO support and compare whether the prognosis was associated with different level of EAA activity. The secondary aims are to analyze the risk factors leading to high EAA activity and investigate the diagnostic value of septic shock combining PCT examination. We suggest that the results of this study may help the ECMO medical team identify patients at high risk for septic shock and conduct adequate managements to improve patient survival and quality of life after survival.
Passive leg raising (PLR) is routinely used to predict preload responsiveness in critically ill patients. However, real-time measurements of cardiac output are required to assess its effects. Some authors have suggested that in fluid non-responders, central venous pressure (CVP) increased markedly. By analogy with the CVP rules proposed by Weill et al to assess a fluid challenge, it has been hypothesized that an increase in CVP ≥ 5 mmHg during PLR can predict preload unresponsiveness. Objective Investigation of whether an increase in CVP ≥ 5 mmHg during PLR predict preload unresponsiveness diagnosed by the absence of increase in velocity-time integral (VTI) of the flow in the left ventricular outflow tract by more than 10% (4). Methods Critically ill patients with a central venous catheter in place and for whom the physician decided to test preload responsiveness by PLR were prospectively included. Transthoracic echocardiography was performed to obtain VTI. The CVP and VTI were measured before and during PLR.