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Monitoring, IntraoperativeNCT06240234

Artificial Intelligence - to Predict and Prevent Hypotension During Surgery

A study testing Capnodynamic method in people with Monitoring, Intraoperative, run by Region Stockholm.

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Opening soon. The study is approved but enrolment has not started yet. Sites may already take enquiries.

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Trial summary

The goal of this medtech clinical trial is to develop and evaluate a machine learning algoritm to predict low blood pressure episodes during major surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are: Could a novel method for cardiac output estimation through alterations in carbon dioxide improve the performance of a… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Monitoring, Intraoperative
What is being tested?
Capnodynamic method
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
300 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
Feb 2024to Dec 2026
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • patients scheduled for elective major abdominal surgery at Karolinska University Hospital.

Who cannot join

  • Cardiac arrytmias, such as atrial fibrillation Severe pulmonary diseases, including severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Patient unable to understand or speak swedish and thereby dificulties to give informed concent.

Trial locations and contacts

No sites are listed yet. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

About this study

The goal of this medtech clinical trial is to develop and evaluate a machine learning algoritm to predict low blood pressure episodes during major surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • Could a novel method for cardiac output estimation through alterations in carbon dioxide improve the performance of a blood pressure based algoritm in order to predict low blood pressure episodes during major abdominal surgery?
  • Will the predictive performance of the algoritm improve with the addition of other patient specific data?
  • Do the estimated cardiac output and central venous saturation by the novel method agree with our invasive arterial pressure method for cardiac output, and samples via a central venous line, respectively? 300 participants will be anesthetized with total intravenous anesthesia and ventilated with the novel carbon dioxide based method, and arterial and central venous blood gases will be taken regularly throughout the operation. All physiological data will be stored for later analyses and development of the algoritm by machine learning methods. No other invasive interventions will be performed outside our standard clinical peroperative protocol.
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Every year, approximately 800,000 patients are operated on in Sweden. Of them, a relatively high proportion suffer from serious complications after surgery, such as heart and kidney damage, stroke and even death. There is a demonstrated connection between the above complications and blood pressure drops during surgery, which means that in any case some of the complications are potentially avoidable if the blood pressure is kept at a stable and adequate level based on each individual patient's conditions.

Unfortunately, episodes of a drop in blood pressure are difficult to predict with the standard monitoring methods available and, therefore unfortunately, often occur during surgery. At Karolinska University Hospital, we are now building a new system that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can sound the alarm even before the drop in blood pressure occurs. In the study, we collect and combine data from the standard monitoring during surgery; pulse, blood pressure, oxygenation, cardiac output, ECG, lab values from blood gases on patients undergoing abdominal surgery which is a group of patients who have a higher risk of suffering from postoperative complications. To this information, we will also add relevant data from a novel method for circulation monitoring based on variations in exhaled carbon dioxide. We will also record the reason why blood pressure has dropped, such as bleeding, drug impact, dehydration, with the aim that the AI algorithms should be able to distinguish between different causes of low blood pressure because they require different measures. The AI algorithms will initially be developed by collecting data from a large group of patients and then evaluating on a smaller group of other, representative patients

Data from our standard monitoring in connection with surgery are supplemented with estimates of cardiac output based on the capnodynamic method. The research subjects will be put to sleep and ventilated via a modified intensive care ventilator (servo-i(R) Getinge). This ventilator has a software for research use that is CE marked. The software modifies the ventilator breathing pattern by to add slightly extended pauses after three out of nine breaths. This breathing pattern results in a mild variation in the level of exhaled carbon dioxide of about 1 kPa. The ventilator has been used in several large animal studies and clinical studies, two of which were conducted by our research group. Because an intensive care ventilator will to be used, the patients are anesthetized with a so-called total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) instead of gas anesthesia. This is different from our current routine in this type of surgery. However, TIVA is used in several other types of surgery and we are well versed in the method. At several hospitals in the country and abroad, TIVA is used as first-line method even in large cancer surgery of the abdomen because there is data that suggests that patients receives minor relapses (metastasis) in the aftermath. During the course of care, the events that are recorded as occurs in order to then be added to the material for qualitative analyzes. Examples of such events are: administration of drugs and fluids, as well as probable cause of hypotension; bleeding body position changes, etc. To be able to compare the capno method's calculations of mixed venous saturation, blood samples will be drawn from the central venous catheter every hour during surgery. Each sample contains about 2 ml of blood. In a five-hour operation, this corresponds to about 1 cl of blood. Simultaneously with the vein samples, arterial blood gases will be taken with the same blood volumes. These samples are taken approximately: Each/every two hours during surgery in clinical routine but in the study protocol they will be taken every hour in sync with the samples from the central venous catheter.

Also clinical outcome such as length of care and complications are saved so that the dose of hypotension can be linked to complications. What is described above are things that we measure and register in clinical routine and thus do not imply any further impact on the research subjects. Analysis of data is done afterwards by our researchers on our computers and servers. Through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) we will train AI algorithms with the goal of constructing Effective and accurate methods for predicting low blood pressure preventively. Because recorded data is used we can retrieve the outcome of the same data and compare our algorithms with what actually happened.

Being tested
Capnodynamic method
Keywords
Hypotension, Artificial intelligence, Capnodynamics
Medical subject headings
Hypotension

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Capnodynamic methodDevice

    All patients will be ventilated using the novel capnodynamic method, incorporated in a modified Maquet servo I ventilator. For this reason, all patients will be anesthetized using total intravenous anesthesia.

Study groups in NCT06240234
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Capnodynamic method armOtherOnly one arm will be used since all patients will be ventilated using the novel capnodynamic method. The algoritm will then be developed by including or omitting the capnodynamic data in addition to the curve data from the arterial line.
Receives: Device: Capnodynamic method

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Accuracy of prediction of hypotension 5 minutes ahead of time using capnodynamics and continuous arterial blood pressure measurement.

    Specified as the area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC).

    Measured: 6-12 hours

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Agreement (precision, bias) for the capnodynamic method vs our standard perioperative method for cardiac output

    RMSE of the capnodynamic method, based on modified capnography measurements, compared to the pulse contour method for cardiac output. Measured using Bland Altman statistics

    Measured: 6-12 hours

  2. Agreement (precision, bias) for the capnodynamic method vs our standard perioperative method for central venous satuation.

    RMSE of the capnodynamic method, based on modified capnography measurements, compared to the standard method for central venous saturation (samples from a central venous line) Measured using Bland Altman statistics

    Measured: 6-12 hours

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted2 Feb 2024
  2. Study startFeb 2024 (estimated)
  3. Primary completionDec 2026 (estimated)
  4. Study completionDec 2026 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
300 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06240234
Sponsor's protocol ID
CIP_AI_hypotension_study_V01
Status last verified
Jan 2024
First submitted
7 Mar 2023
Last updated
2 Feb 2024
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Chong MA, Wang Y, Berbenetz NM, McConachie I. Does goal-directed haemodynamic and fluid therapy improve peri-operative outcomes?: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2018 Jul;35(7):469-483. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000000778.

    PubMed 29369117
  • Hamilton MA, Cecconi M, Rhodes A. A systematic review and meta-analysis on the use of preemptive hemodynamic intervention to improve postoperative outcomes in moderate and high-risk surgical patients. Anesth Analg. 2011 Jun;112(6):1392-402. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181eeaae5. Epub 2010 Oct 21.

    PubMed 20966436
  • Sun Y, Chai F, Pan C, Romeiser JL, Gan TJ. Effect of perioperative goal-directed hemodynamic therapy on postoperative recovery following major abdominal surgery-a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Crit Care. 2017 Jun 12;21(1):141. doi: 10.1186/s13054-017-1728-8.

    PubMed 28602158
  • Yuan J, Sun Y, Pan C, Li T. Goal-directed fluid therapy for reducing risk of surgical site infections following abdominal surgery - A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Int J Surg. 2017 Mar;39:74-87. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.01.081. Epub 2017 Jan 23.

    PubMed 28126672
  • Wijnberge M, Schenk J, Bulle E, Vlaar AP, Maheshwari K, Hollmann MW, Binnekade JM, Geerts BF, Veelo DP. Association of intraoperative hypotension with postoperative morbidity and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. BJS Open. 2021 Jan 8;5(1):zraa018. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zraa018.

    PubMed 33609377
  • Hallsjo Sander C, Hallback M, Wallin M, Emtell P, Oldner A, Bjorne H. Novel continuous capnodynamic method for cardiac output assessment during mechanical ventilation. Br J Anaesth. 2014 May;112(5):824-31. doi: 10.1093/bja/aet486. Epub 2014 Feb 18.

    PubMed 24554544
  • Sigmundsson TS, Ohman T, Hallback M, Redondo E, Sipmann FS, Wallin M, Oldner A, Hallsjo Sander C, Bjorne H. Performance of a capnodynamic method estimating effective pulmonary blood flow during transient and sustained hypercapnia. J Clin Monit Comput. 2018 Apr;32(2):311-319. doi: 10.1007/s10877-017-0021-3. Epub 2017 May 11.

    PubMed 28497180
  • Sigmundsson TS, Ohman T, Hallback M, Suarez-Sipmann F, Wallin M, Oldner A, Hallsjo-Sander C, Bjorne H. Comparison between capnodynamic and thermodilution method for cardiac output monitoring during major abdominal surgery: An observational study. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2021 Dec 1;38(12):1242-1252. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001566.

    PubMed 34155171
  • Hallsjo Sander C, Hallback M, Suarez Sipmann F, Wallin M, Oldner A, Bjorne H. A novel continuous capnodynamic method for cardiac output assessment in a porcine model of lung lavage. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2015 Sep;59(8):1022-31. doi: 10.1111/aas.12559. Epub 2015 Jun 4.

    PubMed 26041115

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Capnodynamic method in people with Monitoring, Intraoperative, run by Region Stockholm.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Feb 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Greg Winski, Dr (+46812380000, greg.winski@regionstockholm.se), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Accuracy of prediction of hypotension 5 minutes ahead of time using capnodynamics and continuous arterial blood pressure measurement. (time frame: 6-12 hours). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06240234, which also lists 9 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Feb 2024; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 3 Nov 2026.

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