About this trial
The adequate characterization of RV injury is currently unknown. The hypothesis is that the best characterization of RV injury is the one with the most significant impact on the response to fluids and on the outcome. An RV failure is expected to induce fluid-unresponsiveness and potentially worst outcome.
The main objective is to characterize different types of RV injury in critically ill patients by examining their association, including predictive performances, in hemodynamics parameters, ventilation parameters, and clinical outcomes
The study will be based on the realisation of an echocardiography within 48 hours following inclusion.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patients admitted to intensive care unit
With a central venous catheter inserted in the superior vena cava territory or a pulmonary arterial catheter for their management,
Requiring invasive ventilation, and/or catecholamine infusion.
Disqualifiers
Advanced chronic heart failure,
Planned or unplanned surgery including cardiac,
Advanced cancer,
Child C cirrhosis,
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Echocardiography and central venous pressure