Clinical trial NCT03720184: Haemo-autologous Antegrade Repriming (HAR) as Minimum Impact Perfusion Strategy for Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Official title: Haemo-autologous Antegrade Repriming (HAR) Clinical Trial for Validation as Minimum Impact Perfusion Strategy in Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anemia
Cognitive; Disorder, Due to General Medical Condition
Embolism, Air
Transfusion
Cardiac Disease
Extracorporeal Circulation; Complications
Valve Anomalies
Keywords: Retrograde autologous priming
RAP
HAR
cardiopulmonary bypass
Extracorporeal circulation
Gaseous microemboli
perfusion
Lead sponsor: Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria Virgen de la Arrixaca
First posted: 2018-10-25
Enrollment: 116
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: In a preliminary phase, patients are randomly assigned to 4 branches, regarding to two conditions: oxygenator´s deairing type and HAR exposure. This phase is designed as pilot study with 100 patients in order to determine precisely the sample size needed depending on the observed effects.

If there are no clinical differences between oxygenators behaviour, during the second stage, sample will be only divided in 2 groups due to HAR exposure.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Haemo-autologous Antegrade Repriming (HAR) is a procedure based in the combination of evidence proven measures designed to reduce the haemodilution caused by establishing the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during cardiac surgery.

This clinical trial aims to determinate, in one hand, the benefits related to HAR in terms of transfusion, ICU stay, ventilation time, early mortality and complications. In the other hand analyzes the gaseous microemboli (GME) load, comparing the oxygenators venting technology´s efficiency in treatment and control group, and its relation with patient´s neurocognitive status.

Detailed description: HAR is a repriming technique based in Retrograde Autologous Priming (RAP), that has been implemented by recently recommended measures in terms of reducing blood transfusions.

The expected clinical benefits are related to hemodilution´s reduction up to only 300ml. The extracorporeal circuit has been reduced to 3/8 inch diameter in both lines, reducing the surface up to 1000ml of dynamic priming.

Vacuum assisted venous drainage (VAVD) allows to empty the venous line after priming and deairing, facilitating the venous flow for CPB initiation.

The antegrade repriming eliminates the maximum amount of crystalloid contained in the circuit, displacing it to a collector bag, by using autologous blood sequestered from the arterial line to the hardshell reservoir.

HAR reduces the CPB hemodilution related to priming from 1500 to 300 ml preventing the usual sudden haemoglobin level reduction occured during every extracorporeal techinque´s establishment.

Our mission is to analyze if HAR can be validated as a safe and effective tool to improve clinical outcomes in cardiac surgery procedures under extracorporeal circulation

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- All patients purposed to undergo elective cardiopulmonary bypass for cardiac valve surgery or other pathologies requiring to open heart chambers.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Urgency and emergency
* Heart transplantations
* Severe cognitive affection
* Active sepsis
* Previous anemia
* Early re-intervention
* Pre-Op extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support
* Hemodynamic unstability during HAR
* Any clinical condition that may force protocol deviation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Transfusion
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: ICU stay
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Ventilation time
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Complications
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Mortality
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Emboli number
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Emboli Volume
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Emotional regulation
timeFrame: 6 months after surgery
measure: Visual work memory variation and emboli
timeFrame: 6 months after surgery
measure: Executive functions and emboli
timeFrame: 6 months after surgery
measure: Visual memory and cognitive status evaluation and emboli
timeFrame: 6 months after surgery
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Murcia
country: Spain
facility: Hospital Clinico universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca
state: MU
Study officials:
affiliation: IMIB. University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca. Murcia
name: Juan B Morillo, M.Sc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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