Critical care echocardiography as a routine versus an acute procedure for the detection and early treatment of cardiac pathologies

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00009746

Enrollment

111

Registered

2016-02-10

Start date

2014-03-24

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

I00-I99

Interventions

Group 1: Patients that met the inclusion criteria will be subjected to an extensive expert echocardiographic evaluation of cardic pathologies on the third day of their ICU stay. The following tests wi

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 100 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Consecutive intensive care patients on their third day in the ICU

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Cardiac admission diagnosis, palliative treatment

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Evaluation of the range and prevalence of cardiac pathologies in ICU patients as following: - Range and prevalence of cardiac pathologies in ICU patients by transthoracic echocardiography (extensive expert echocardiographic evaluation on the third day in the intensive care unit) - Survival of ICU patients with echocardiographically detectable cardiac pathologies (clinical parameters investigated during the stay in intensive care, Kaplan-Meier survical analysis) - Sensitivites, specificities, positive predictive values, negative predictive values for the presence of cardiac pathologies detected by ECG and chest x-ray interpretation (correlation of ECG and chest x-ray interpretation conducted during day 1-3 in the intensive care unit with echocardiographic detectable cardiac pathologies conducted on the third day of the intensive care stay) - Transthoracic image quality in ICU patients (evaluation on the third day in intensive care by thransthoracic echocardiography) - Prediction of cardiac pathologies by established ICU parameters (SAPS II; days in intensive care, etc.) [echocardiographic evaluation from the third day in intensive care and clinical parameters from the entire stay in the intensive care unit]	—

Measure

Time frame

Evaluation of the range and prevalence of cardiac pathologies in ICU patients as following: - Range and prevalence of cardiac pathologies in ICU patients by transthoracic echocardiography (extensive expert echocardiographic evaluation on the third day in the intensive care unit) - Survival of ICU patients with echocardiographically detectable cardiac pathologies (clinical parameters investigated during the stay in intensive care, Kaplan-Meier survical analysis) - Sensitivites, specificities, positive predictive values, negative predictive values for the presence of cardiac pathologies detected by ECG and chest x-ray interpretation (correlation of ECG and chest x-ray interpretation conducted during day 1-3 in the intensive care unit with echocardiographic detectable cardiac pathologies conducted on the third day of the intensive care stay) - Transthoracic image quality in ICU patients (evaluation on the third day in intensive care by thransthoracic echocardiography) - Prediction of cardiac pathologies by established ICU parameters (SAPS II; days in intensive care, etc.) [echocardiographic evaluation from the third day in intensive care and clinical parameters from the entire stay in the intensive care unit]

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
In addition the the primary endpoints the following secondary endpoint will be evaluated: - relevance and usefulness of the echocardiographic evaluation on the third day of the ICU stay determined by a questionaire answered by the attending resident and consultant	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactStefan Schmidt

Universitätsklinikum GöttingenKlinik für Anästhesiologie

stefan.schmidt@med.uni-goettingen.de0551 / 39-8864

Outcome results

None listed

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