Intraoperative Dobutamine Stress Test With Speckle Tracking to Decrease Postoperative Mortality (ISTMO)

NCT03365726 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 15-228-MUHC
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 140
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Perioperative adverse cardiovascular events are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality after noncardiac surgery. The implications of perioperative cardiac complications on morbidity and mortality, in-hospital and long-term care, and resource utilization are enormous. The continuously increasing proportion of elderly patients presenting for noncardiac surgery raises serious concerns regarding adverse cardiac events in the perioperative period. The responsibility for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of cardiac complications during surgery rests squarely with the anesthesiologist. Reliable intraoperative identification of patients at high risk for postoperative AMI and/or death is currently inadequate, but may confer substantial benefits to patients as preventive measures could be instituted. A reliable and reproducible quantitative measure of regional and global myocardial function could improve preoperative risk stratification and guide anesthetic management when acute changes in myocardial function occur. In the present study is hypothesized that intraoperative dobutamine stress echocardiography by 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography can identify patients at higher risk of perioperative adverse cardiac events.

Conditions

Mortality After Major Non Cardiac Surgery

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• mortality

  mortality

  30 days

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• myocardial infarction

  within 30 days after surgery

Study Arms (2)

DST (dobutamine-stress-test)

EXPERIMENTAL

dobutamine stress echocardiography performed to patients undergoing major surgery

Diagnostic Test: Dobutamine stress test with trans-esophageal echocardiography

NDST (no-dobutamine-stress-test)

NO INTERVENTION

patients refused the dobutamine stress test and transesophageal echocardiography measured the troponin level in first 24 hours after surgery

Interventions

Dobutamine stress test with trans-esophageal echocardiography DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Dobutamine stress echocardiography will be performed: before skin incision and at the end of surgery. After a TEE evaluation at rest to assess myocardial structure, function and potential regional wall motion abnormalities, dobutamine infusion will be started * If no regional wall motion abnormalities will be detected, a dobutamine stress echocardiography will be started at the range infusion of 50 γ/kg/min (ADST: Accelerated Dobutamine Stress Test). The Test will be continued up to the 85% of maximum heart rate adjusted for the patient age and echo images will be stored. * If regional wall motion abnormalities are present, a gradual dobutamine stress test will be started at the initial dose of 10 mcg/kg/min (GDST: Gradual Dobutamine Stress Test) and it will be increased every 3 minutes until the 85% of maximum heart rate, adjusted for patient's age (maximal dose: 40 mcg/kg/min) and echo images will be stored.

DST (dobutamine-stress-test)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 50 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Any laparotomy
• Any thoracotomy
• Any hip surgery
• Any complex oncologic surgery o Any thoracoscopy

You may not qualify if:

• Females older than 80 year old
• Patients on chronic systemic corticosteroid therapy
• Diagnosed pharyngeal or gastro-esophageal pathologies (such as esophageal varices, stricture, diverticula, tumor, esophagitis, Mallory- Weiss tear, or previous surgery for any of these)
• Signs and symptoms of severe pharyngeal or gastro-esophageal pathologies (including odynophagia, dysphagia)
• Emergency surgery
• Age less than 50 year old

Sponsors & Collaborators

• A.O. Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII: collaborator
• McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre: lead
• Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Quebec: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

MUHC

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Location

Related Publications (17)

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Study Officials

• Francesco Donatelli, MD

  MUHC - McGill University Health Centre

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Ferdinando Luca Lorini, MD

  Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Lina Pietropaoli, MD, PhD

  MUHC - McGill University Health Centre

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD, PhD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 22, 2017
• First Posted: December 7, 2017
• Study Start: January 19, 2016
• Primary Completion: January 19, 2018
• Study Completion: January 19, 2021
• Last Updated: May 11, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)