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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00911391




Registration number
NCT00911391
Ethics application status
Date submitted
28/05/2009
Date registered
1/06/2009
Date last updated
29/11/2011

Titles & IDs
Public title
Randomised Trial of Doppler-Optimised Fluid Balance in Elective Colectomy
Scientific title
Prospective, Double-Blinded, Randomised Controlled Trial of Doppler-Optimised Fluid Balance in Elective Colectomy Within an ERAS Protocol
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
GDFT RCT
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Colorectal Cancer 0 0
Colectomy 0 0
Surgery 0 0
Perioperative Care 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Bowel - Back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon)

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Devices - Oesophageal Doppler
Treatment: Surgery - Intraoperative fluid restriction

Active comparator: Fluid restriction - Current best practice of intraoperative fluid restriction

Experimental: Oesophageal Doppler - Oesophageal Doppler-guided fluid administration


Treatment: Devices: Oesophageal Doppler
Non-invasive measurement of doppler-derived cardiovascular variables (CO, aortic flow rate). Used safely over 800, 000 times

Treatment: Surgery: Intraoperative fluid restriction
Current best practice of avoiding fluid overload by intraoperative fluid restriction

Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Devices
Intervention code [2] 0 0
Treatment: Surgery
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Post-operative functional recovery
Timepoint [1] 0 0
7 day
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Perioperative Complications
Timepoint [1] 0 0
30 day

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* consecutive patients undergoing open/ laparoscopic colonic resection at Manukau surgical Centre (MSC)or North Shore Hospital, Auckland.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
90 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* severe oesophageal disease
* recent oesophageal or upper airway surgery
* moderate or severe aortic valve disease as proven by echocardiogram
* documented bleeding diathesis
* preoperative steroid use
* cognitive impairment
* ASA>3
* patient choice.
* rectal tumour (defined as less an 15cm from anal verge on preop investigations)
* creation of stoma
* difficulty in obtaining reliable measurements from ODM

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s
The people administering the treatment/s
The people assessing the outcomes
The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
Recruitment outside Australia
Country [1] 0 0
New Zealand
State/province [1] 0 0
Auckland

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Address
Country
Other collaborator category [1] 0 0
Other
Name [1] 0 0
Counties Manukau Health
Address [1] 0 0
Country [1] 0 0
Other collaborator category [2] 0 0
Government body
Name [2] 0 0
Waitemata District Health Board
Address [2] 0 0
Country [2] 0 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Andrew G Hill, MBChB MD FRACS
Address 0 0
South Auckland Clinical School, University of Auckland
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for scientific queries

No information has been provided regarding IPD availability


What supporting documents are/will be available?

No Supporting Document Provided



Results publications and other study-related documents

No documents have been uploaded by study researchers.