Postoperative Vasopressor Usage: SQUEEZE

Surgical Procedures, Operative Clinical Trial

— SQUEEZE  

Official title:

Postoperative Vasopressor Usage : a Prospective International Observational Study (SQUEEZE)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03805230
• Other study ID #: SQUEEZE
• Status: Completed
• Start date: October 5, 2020
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: European Society of Anaesthesiology
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

A prospective multi-centre international observational study of postoperative vasopressor use, designed to answer the question: 'What is the proportion of patients that receive vasopressor infusions? In the management of these patients;

• Are there variations in the practice between clinicians, hospitals or countries? If yes, are they associated with clinical outcome?

• What are the health economic impacts associated with receiving vasopressors?

Description:

Postoperative hypotension is a common occurrence following major non-cardiac surgery and the use of vasopressors in the postoperative period to support blood pressure following optimisation of fluid status is commonplace. Receipt of infused vasopressors postoperatively is considered as a surrogate indicator of significant vasodilation. However, the incidence of postoperative vasopressor therapy has never been described.

By contrast to septic shock, there is no uniform definition of postoperative vasoplegia. Receipt of any amount of vasopressor would provide an objective dichotomous definition but a limitation would be the inability to differentiate degrees of vasodilation. Use of a threshold dose of infused vasopressor to determine a definition is uncomfortably arbitrary. There have been trials of different vasopressors to treat postoperative vasoplegia in cardiac surgical patients and we intend to gather data to inform future design in noncardiac surgery.

In addition, there is evidence of substantial variation in the management of postoperative hypotension between centres, countries and continents. The variation is in assessment (cardiac output and invasive monitoring) and environment (post-operative care units, high-dependency units, ICUs) and management (use and choice of fluids and vasopressors/inotropes). We hypothesise that there is also variation in the incidence of organ dysfunction and the use of organ support, and in clinical outcomes including duration of stay and mortality.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 25000
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Undergoing surgery (may be planned or unplanned)

• No plans for return home on the day of surgery, for medical reasons

• Age = 18 on day of surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cardiac surgery

• Obstetric surgery

• Transplant surgery

• Receiving long-term infusions of vasoactive drugs, such as epoprostenol

• Mechanical circulatory support: ventricular assist device, intra-aortic balloon pump, artificial heart or similar

• Already been enrolled in Squeeze

For Cohort B - One additional inclusion criterion:

• Receiving infusion of vasopressors that continues after the patient has left the operating room.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Surgical Procedures, Operative
• Vasopressor

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum	Bochum
Netherlands	Wilhelmina Hospital Assen	Assen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
European Society of Anaesthesiology

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

Germany,  Netherlands, 

References & Publications (9)

Abbott TEF, Fowler AJ, Pelosi P, Gama de Abreu M, Moller AM, Canet J, Creagh-Brown B, Mythen M, Gin T, Lalu MM, Futier E, Grocott MP, Schultz MJ, Pearse RM; StEP-COMPAC Group. A systematic review and consensus definitions for standardised end-points in perioperative medicine: pulmonary complications. Br J Anaesth. 2018 May;120(5):1066-1079. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2018.02.007. Epub 2018 Mar 27. — View Citation

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Global patient outcomes after elective surgery: prospective cohort study in 27 low-, middle- and high-income countries. Br J Anaesth. 2017 Sep 1;119(3):553. doi: 10.1093/bja/aew472. No abstract available. — View Citation

Hajjar LA, Vincent JL, Barbosa Gomes Galas FR, Rhodes A, Landoni G, Osawa EA, Melo RR, Sundin MR, Grande SM, Gaiotto FA, Pomerantzeff PM, Dallan LO, Franco RA, Nakamura RE, Lisboa LA, de Almeida JP, Gerent AM, Souza DH, Gaiane MA, Fukushima JT, Park CL, Zambolim C, Rocha Ferreira GS, Strabelli TM, Fernandes FL, Camara L, Zeferino S, Santos VG, Piccioni MA, Jatene FB, Costa Auler JO Jr, Filho RK. Vasopressin versus Norepinephrine in Patients with Vasoplegic Shock after Cardiac Surgery: The VANCS Randomized Controlled Trial. Anesthesiology. 2017 Jan;126(1):85-93. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001434. — View Citation

Jammer I, Wickboldt N, Sander M, Smith A, Schultz MJ, Pelosi P, Leva B, Rhodes A, Hoeft A, Walder B, Chew MS, Pearse RM; European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM); European Society of Anaesthesiology; European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Standards for definitions and use of outcome measures for clinical effectiveness research in perioperative medicine: European Perioperative Clinical Outcome (EPCO) definitions: a statement from the ESA-ESICM joint taskforce on perioperative outcome measures. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2015 Feb;32(2):88-105. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000000118. — View Citation

Kho ME, Duffett M, Willison DJ, Cook DJ, Brouwers MC. Written informed consent and selection bias in observational studies using medical records: systematic review. BMJ. 2009 Mar 12;338:b866. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b866. — View Citation

Lambden S, Creagh-Brown BC, Hunt J, Summers C, Forni LG. Definitions and pathophysiology of vasoplegic shock. Crit Care. 2018 Jul 6;22(1):174. doi: 10.1186/s13054-018-2102-1. — View Citation

Moonesinghe SR, Wong DJN, Farmer L, Shawyer R, Myles PS, Harris SK; SNAP-2 Project team and Steering Group. SNAP-2 EPICCS: the second Sprint National Anaesthesia Project-EPIdemiology of Critical Care after Surgery: protocol for an international observational cohort study. BMJ Open. 2017 Sep 7;7(9):e017690. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017690. — View Citation

Pearse RM, Moreno RP, Bauer P, Pelosi P, Metnitz P, Spies C, Vallet B, Vincent JL, Hoeft A, Rhodes A; European Surgical Outcomes Study (EuSOS) group for the Trials groups of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Mortality after surgery in Europe: a 7 day cohort study. Lancet. 2012 Sep 22;380(9847):1059-65. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61148-9. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Prevalence of postoperative vasopressor usage in a none cardiac surgical population.	1. What proportions of patients receive infused vasopressors postoperatively?	A the primary endpoint is the proportion of patients receiving vasopressor infusions that start between 1 and 24 hours postoperatively

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