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A European study to evaluate how doctors care for patients who get a heart ultrasound (called a transthoracic echocardiogram) before having surgery that doesn t involve the heart, and what happens to those patients during that time.

EuPreCHO: European study on perioperative management and outcome following Preoperative Transthoracic Echocardiography in noncardiac surgery patients. - EuPreCHO

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2025/11/097848
Enrollment
8089
Registered
2025-11-21
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-12-08

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical

Interventions

Intervention1: Nil: Nil Intervention2: Nil: Nil Intervention3: Nil: Nil Control Intervention1: Nil: Nil

Sponsors

European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients planned to undergo elective, in-hospital intermediate or high-risk noncardiac surgery procedures 2. aged more than or equal to 65 years OR 3. presenting more than or equal to 2 cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, smoking, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, family history of CVD) OR 4. with known cardiovascular disease

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. under 18 years of age 2. day surgery 3. urgent or emergency procedures 4. current ICU patient (i.e. in ICU on day-1 or the day of the index surgery (day 0)), 5. cardiac surgery within the last month prior to the index noncardiac procedure (of note this does not include cardiological interventions like TAVI or valvuloplasty), 6. unwilling or unable to provide informed consent, 7. unable to complete the WHODAS questionnaire (literacy or language barrier) 8. Previous enrollment in EuPreCHO (in case of repeated surgery).

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Difference in current clinical practice with respect to the perioperative management of patients evaluated with vs those not evaluated with preoperative TTETimepoint: on Post operative day 30

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Difference in current clinical practice with respect to the outcome of patients evaluated with vs those not evaluated with preoperative TTETimepoint: on Post operative day 30;Factors (model) which enhance the prediction of major pathologies in preoperative TTETimepoint: on Post operative day 30

Countries

Belgium, Germany, India, Sweden

Contacts

Public ContactDr Atul Kulkarni

Tata Memorial Hospital

kaivalyaak@yahoo.co.in9869077526

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026