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Capillary Lactate and Transfusion Needs

NCT01793428 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2015-04-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

13% of injured normotensive patients arriving in emergency unit need mass blood-transfusion of six or more units of packed Red Blood Cells. It is currently difficult to predict the need for such a mass blood-transfusion. Indeed hemoglobin point of care testing (hemocue) and blood pressure can be normal during the first hours despite intensive bleeding.

It's well known that blood or arterial lactate measures correlate with trauma severity but these measures are not available in a pre-hospital setting. The investigators want to test whether capillary lactate measures also correlate with trauma severity and can therefore predicts earlier transfusion needs.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Capillary lactate level

Use of capillary sample to determine lactate level upon arrival at vital emergency unit and at 2 hours

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Grenoble

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marc Vinclair, MD · University Hospital, Grenoble

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-02-28

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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