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Intraoperative Dobutamine Stress Test With Speckle Tracking to Decrease Postoperative Mortality (ISTMO)
Sponsor: McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Summary
Perioperative adverse cardiovascular events are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality after noncardiac surgery. The implications of perioperative cardiac complications on morbidity and mortality, in-hospital and long-term care, and resource utilization are enormous. The continuously increasing proportion of elderly patients presenting for noncardiac surgery raises serious concerns regarding adverse cardiac events in the perioperative period. The responsibility for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of cardiac complications during surgery rests squarely with the anesthesiologist. Reliable intraoperative identification of patients at high risk for postoperative AMI and/or death is currently inadequate, but may confer substantial benefits to patients as preventive measures could be instituted. A reliable and reproducible quantitative measure of regional and global myocardial function could improve preoperative risk stratification and guide anesthetic management when acute changes in myocardial function occur. In the present study is hypothesized that intraoperative dobutamine stress echocardiography by 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography can identify patients at higher risk of perioperative adverse cardiac events.
Official title: Intraoperative Stress Test With Dobutamine and Speckle Tracking to Decrease Postoperative Mortality
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
50 Years - 80 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
140
Start Date
2016-01-19
Completion Date
2021-01-19
Last Updated
2026-05-11
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Dobutamine stress test with trans-esophageal echocardiography
Dobutamine stress echocardiography will be performed: before skin incision and at the end of surgery. After a TEE evaluation at rest to assess myocardial structure, function and potential regional wall motion abnormalities, dobutamine infusion will be started * If no regional wall motion abnormalities will be detected, a dobutamine stress echocardiography will be started at the range infusion of 50 γ/kg/min (ADST: Accelerated Dobutamine Stress Test). The Test will be continued up to the 85% of maximum heart rate adjusted for the patient age and echo images will be stored. * If regional wall motion abnormalities are present, a gradual dobutamine stress test will be started at the initial dose of 10 mcg/kg/min (GDST: Gradual Dobutamine Stress Test) and it will be increased every 3 minutes until the 85% of maximum heart rate, adjusted for patient's age (maximal dose: 40 mcg/kg/min) and echo images will be stored.
Locations (1)
MUHC
Montreal, Quebec, Canada