Hypokalemia in Hospitalized Patients for Heart Failure in the Therapeutic Cardiac Failure Unit

Hypokalemia in Hospitalized Patients for Heart Failure in the Therapeutic Cardiac Failure Unit: Morbidity-mortality Impact

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03405051

Acronym

HYPIC

Enrollment

250

Registered

2018-01-19

Start date

2017-11-15

Completion date

2019-02-01

Last updated

2019-02-04

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Conditions

Heart Failure

Keywords

hypokalemia, cardiac failure

Brief summary

Hypokalemia is very common in heart failure patients. Deleterious effects have been report on the cardiovascular system. Most of the clinical data concerning this ionic trouble are based on post-hoc study and some findings seemed disjointed.

Detailed description

This study tried to describe hypokalemia impact during hospital stay in hospitalized patients with heart failure and particularly on mortality and re-hospitalization.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Hospitalized patient in the Therapeutic Cardiac Failure Unit in the CHR Metz-Thionville * Patient with congestive heart failure

Exclusion criteria

* None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Composite of death and re-hospitalization	Month 3	The number of death for any reason and re-hospitalization for congestive heart failure

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Death	Month 3	Percentage of death for any reason
Re-hospitalization	Month 3	Percentage of re-hospitalization for congestive heart failure
Length of stay	Month 3	Days spent at the hospital
Incidence of hypokalemia	Month 3	Percentage of incidence during the stay of hypokalemia
Prevalence of hypokalemia	Month 3	Percentage of initial prevalence during the stay of hypokalemia

Countries

France

Outcome results