Breath monitor could guide surgery care and cut organ failure
NCT ID NCT03852147
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether measuring a patient's exhaled gases during surgery can help doctors better manage fluids and medications. 350 adults having major abdominal, orthopedic, or vascular surgery were randomly assigned to standard care or care guided by the respiratory quotient. The goal was to see if this approach reduces organ failure and death within 30 days after surgery.
What this could mean
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- Active substance
- hemodynamic management algorithm using respiratory quotient measurement
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a better way to manage fluids and medications during major surgery, potentially reducing organ failure and complications.
- What could go wrong
- This is a completed study, but results are not yet widely known. The approach adds complexity and may not improve outcomes over standard care.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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350 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Dec 2018
- Finished
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Jan 2023
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Abdominal, orthopedic or vascular surgery with general anesthesia * ASA score ≥ II * Estimated duration of surgery\> 2 hours * Consent signed. * Affiliation to a social security scheme Exclusion Criteria: * Untreated or unbalanced severe hypertension under treatment. * Preoperative renal failure dialyzed. * Acute heart failure. * Acute coronary insufficiency. * Vascular surgery with kidney plasty. * Cardiac surgery. * Permanent laparoscopy. * Preoperative shock state. * Refusal of patient's participation * Pregnant woman, parturient or breastfeeding. * Patient under guardianship or trusteeship, under the protection of justice or private public law. * Anesthesia with loco-regional anesthesia (spinal anesthesia and epidural). * Acute respiratory distress syndrome (PaO2 / FiO2 ratio \<300). * Chronic Respiratory Failure with Home Oxygen Therapy. * Patient already included in another therapeutic trial with an experimental molecule. * Emergency anesthesia
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Amiens, 80054, France
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