Monitoring of the End-tidal Carbon Dioxide (EtCO2) as a Severity Criterion in COPD Exacerbations

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Monitoring of the End-tidal Carbon Dioxide (EtCO2 ) as a Severity Criterion in COPD Exacerbations: a Prospective Observational Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05704881
• Other study ID #: 38RC22.077
• Secondary ID: 2022-A02330-43
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: March 3, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: University Hospital, Grenoble
• Contact: Nicolas SEGOND, MD
• Phone: +33476766784
• Email: nsegond[@]chu-grenoble.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Although we know that these numbers are underestimated, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common chronic respiratory disease that affects between 8 and 12% of adults. According to a 2020 WHO report, it is the third most common cause of mortality in developed countries. This disease is punctuated by exacerbations associated with an 8% mortality of hospitalized patients, increased to 24% when the patient is admitted to intensive care unit. Early detection and treatment of these exacerbations appears to be essential to improve patient survival. End-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2) is used to assess a patient's respiratory and hemodynamic status. Indeed, EtCO2 is a non-invasive measure that could allow the estimation of arterial carbon dioxide (PaCO2) without performing blood gases, an arterial blood sampling, classically at the radial artery. This study aimed to find an EtCO2 value which at the time of the initial management, would be predictive of a severe COPD exacerbation, as well as PaCO2.

Description:

The study will be conducted in the emergency departments of Grenoble and Lyon University Hospitals.

Patients will be recruited by the dispatch nurse at the emergency department reception according to the inclusion and non-inclusion criteria. The EtCO2 will be measured at the emergency reception during assessment of vital signs by the same nurse with the help of a mask or oxygen glasses measuring EtCO2. The patient will then be treated conventionally according to current international recommendations. The physician in charge of the patient will be blinded to this measurement. Once the patient is discharged from the emergency department, the primary and secondary endpoints will be collected by a clinical research associate 24 hours after admission from medical record.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 240
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patient presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnea and with a history of COPD documented or reported by the patient and/or family

• Male or female=18 years old who did not oppose to participating in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hypotension (SBP < 90 mmHg or MBP < 65 mmHg)

• Patient already included in the study during a previous visit to the emergency department

• Patient already ventilated with invasive or NIV during admission to the emergency department

• COPD exacerbation rejected after medical and additional examinations

• Non-communicative or non-French speaking patients, or with impaired comprehension, or with impaired consciousness

• Protected persons referred to in articles L1121-6 and L1121-8 of French public health code (deprived of liberty, tutorship or curatorship)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Exacerbation Copd
• Lung Diseases
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• End-Tidal CO2 measurement during COPD exacerbation
The EtCO2 will be measured at the emergency reception during assessment of vital signs by the nurse with the help of a mask or oxygen glasses measuring EtCO2. The patient will then be treated conventionally according to current international recommendations. The physician in charge of the patient will be blinded to this measurement. The outcome will be the initiation of invasive or non-invasive ventilation (NIV) within the first 24 hours of admission to the emergency department, as indicated by the physician in charge of the patient.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Grenoble Alpes	Grenoble	Isère
France	Hospices Civils de Lyon	Lyon	Rhône

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Grenoble	Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (9)

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Tyagi D, Govindagoudar MB, Jakka S, Chandra S, Chaudhry D. Correlation of PaCO2 and ETCO2 in COPD Patients with Exacerbation on Mechanical Ventilation. Indian J Crit Care Med. 2021 Mar;25(3):305-309. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23762. — View Citation

Wang J, Zhang J, Liu Y, Shang H, Peng L, Cui Z. Relationship between end-tidal carbon dioxide and arterial carbon dioxide in critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation: A cross-sectional study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Aug 20;100(33):e26973. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000026973. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Invasive or non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use (hour/min)	Invasive or non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use (hour/min)	24 hours
Secondary	Arterial Blood Gaz measurement	PaCO2 and pH values	15 minutes (after emergency admission)
Secondary	Concordance between EtCO2 (mmHg) and PaCO2 (mmHg) using Bland and Altman graphical method.	A Bland and Altman graph will be used to estimate the concordance between values of EtCO2 (mmHg) and PaCO2 (mmHg) measured on the first blood gases sample performed in the emergency department.	15 minutes (after emergency admission)
Secondary	Concordance between EtCO2 (mmHg) and PvCO2 (mmHg) using Bland and Altman graphical method.	A Bland and Altman graph will be used to estimate the concordance between values of EtCO2 (mmHg) and PvCO2 (mmHg) measured on the first venous blood sample performed in the emergency department.	15 minutes (after emergency admission)

External Links

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