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The purpose of this research study is to determine how vasopressors affect a measure of how intravenous fluid is administered in people undergoing surgery who have low blood pressure called Pulse Pressure Variability (PPV). This study will recruit human subjects to undergo simulated hypovolemia called Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) and will receive phenylephrine and placebo, while PPV will be measured in both conditions. This research will help anesthesiologists learn more about how to use PPV in patients undergoing surgery and who need vasopressors.


Clinical Trial Description

Perioperative fluid administration is a very important issue in modern anesthesia practice. Overzealous intraoperative administration of fluids can lead to cardiac overload thus potentially causing significant morbidity. It has been demonstrated that over 50% of perioperative complications are tied to intraoperative fluid administration and that changing intraoperative fluid management alone has significant positive benefit. Pulse pressure variation (PPV), which quantifies the respiratory variation in beat-to-beat arterial blood pressure, is viewed as a reliable method to assess volume status. Increasing PPV indicates hypovolemia, and a decreasing PPV indicates progression towards euvolemia. However, there are many commonly encountered intraoperative conditions that may make these interpretations of PPV problematic. For example it is commonly accepted in the perioperative community that PPV is interpretable in patients without vasopressor infusion since there is little consensus to the effects of vasopressor therapy on PPV. Hence the proposed study seeks to characterize the PPV response during simulated hypovolemia with and without infusion of phenylephrine, which acts on alpha-1 receptors to increase systemic vascular resistance, and hence blood pressure. In a patient under general anesthesia, a PPV cut-off of 13% indicates a positive response to fluid administration. However, this cut-off was based on studies that used a wide variety of vasopressor agents with different mechanisms. Furthermore, it is unclear how effective the current threshold is at predicting fluid responsiveness when vasopressors are added during the same operation (i.e. a PPV of 13% without vasopressors likely represents different physiologic conditions compared to a PPV of 13% with vasopressors in the same operation). Hence, understanding how vasopressors such as phenylephrine change PPV and the PPV threshold is very important and represents an important knowledge gap in the practice of anesthesia. ;


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NCT number NCT05011357
Study type Interventional
Source University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Contact Noah P Jouett, DO/PhD
Phone (214) 648-5460
Email noah.jouett@utsouthwestern.edu
Status Recruiting
Phase Early Phase 1
Start date September 10, 2021
Completion date June 30, 2024

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