Heart surgery monitor under scrutiny: is it necessary?
NCT ID NCT07612683
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether using a special heart monitor (pulmonary artery catheter) during open heart surgery is necessary. About 1600 adults having heart surgery will be randomly assigned to either get the monitor or not. Researchers will compare how well they recover, focusing on days spent alive and at home in the first month after surgery.
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 1,600 people
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- Expected to start
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Jun 2026
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- Expected to finish
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Jan 2030
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- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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18 years and older
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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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: * Age ≥ 18 years * Undergoing cardiac surgery or surgery of the thoracic aorta Exclusion Criteria: * Predicted operative mortality ≥ 3% based on the EuroSCORE II * Emergency surgery, defined as surgery that must be performed within 24 hours of the decision to operate or before the start of the next business day, whichever is sooner * Severe left ventricular systolic impairment (ejection fraction \<30%) * Pulmonary hypertension, defined hierarchically as: * Mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) ≥ 20 mmHg based on the most recent formal right heart catheterisation (RHC) study conducted pre-operatively; else, if no RHC performed * Peak tricuspid regurgitant velocity (TRV) ≥ 2.9 m.s-1 on the most recent pre-operative transthoracic echocardiogram;45,46 else, if TRV not reported * Right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) ≥ 40 mmHg on the most recent pre-operative transthoracic echocardiogram * Right ventricular systolic impairment. May be identified by cardiologist reported right ventricular systolic dysfunction, TAPSE \< 15mm, or RVFAC \< 35% on pre-operative transthoracic echocardiography * Endovascular-only procedures * Cardiac transplantation * Contraindication to pulmonary artery catheterisation (e.g. severe tricuspid or pulmonary stenosis, right heart tumour, large atrial or ventricular septal defects) * Contraindication to transesophageal echocardiography (e.g. prior oesophagectomy, oesophageal pathology (tumour, stricture, perforation, diverticulum), active upper GI bleed) * Patients previously enrolled and randomized in PUMA.
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