Vascular Events In Noncardiac Surgery Patients Cohort Evaluation Study (VISION)

NCT ID: NCT00512109

Last Updated: 2018-04-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 40060 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2014-12-31

Brief Summary

The investigators' study has 4 primary objectives. Among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery the investigators will determine: (1) the incidence of major perioperative vascular events; (2) the optimal clinical model to predict major perioperative vascular events; (3) the proportion of patients with perioperative myocardial infarctions that may go undetected without perioperative troponin monitoring; and (4) the relationship between postoperative troponin measurements and the 1 year risk of vascular death.

Detailed Description

The increase in elderly patients undergoing surgery, the change in the invasiveness of some surgical interventions, limitations in the methodology and generalizability of previous research, and the VISION Pilot Study results highlight uncertainty about the current incidence of major vascular events and the optimal clinical risk estimation model to predict these events in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. There is promising but inconclusive preliminary evidence that troponin measurements after surgery may allow physicians to avoid missing perioperative myocardial infarctions and may predict mortality and major vascular events in the first year following surgery. These considerations provide the impetus for the large, adequately powered, multicentre, international, prospective cohort study.

We will determine the incidence of major vascular events, the optimal clinical model to predict major perioperative vascular events, and the extent to which troponin measurements post surgery can identify myocardial infarctions that are likely to go unrecognized and predict vascular death at 1 year. We call this study the Vascular events In noncardiac Surgery patIents cOhort evaluatioN (VISION) Study.

The VISION Study is a prospective cohort study of 40,000 patients who are > 45 years of age, undergoing noncardiac surgery requiring overnight hospital admission, and receiving a general or regional anesthetic. Hospitals (including both university and non-university hospitals) in several countries around the world will recruit patients, over a 2 year period. Study personnel will evaluate patients prior to surgery, follow patients throughout their hospitalization, and contact patients at 30 days and 1 year after surgery. All patients will have troponin T measured post surgery and on the first, second, and third days after surgery. Outcome adjudicators will adjudicate all major vascular events without knowledge of a patient's vascular risk factors.

We will also determine if there are associations between any preoperative or postoperative medications and major perioperative vascular events. We will also determine if there are associations between any medications started after a major perioperative vascular event and vascular mortality 1 year after surgery. We will evaluate the 1 year risk of stroke in patients who do and do not develop atrial fibrillation after surgery and if there is an association with antiplatelet or warfarin therapy. We will measure N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in 8,000 - 10,000 patients prior to surgery and determine if NT-proBNP is an independent predictor of major perioperative vascular events. We will determine the incidence of perioperative new acute renal failure requiring dialysis and pneumonia and develop models to predict these events.

Conditions

Vascular Death; Myocardial Infarction; Cardiac Arrest; Stroke

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients who undergo noncardiac surgery are eligible if they are > 45 years of age and receive a general or regional anesthetic (i.e., plexus block, spinal, or epidural).

Exclusion Criteria

• We will exclude patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who do not require at least an overnight hospital admission after surgery or who only receive infiltrative (i.e., local) or topical anesthesia.
• We will also exclude patients previously enrolled in the VISION Study and patients who do not consent to participate.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Roche Diagnostic Ltd.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Population Health Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, Ontario

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

CLARITY Group

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

McMaster University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Philip J Devereaux, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster University

Locations

Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa do Hospital do Coração (IEP-HCor)

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Health Science Centre, McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Saint Joseph's Healthcare

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Prince of Wales Hospital

Hong Kong, , China

Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga

Bucaramanga, Santander Department, Colombia

St. John's Medical College

Bangalore, , India

Hospital: University Malaya

Kuala Lumpur, , Malaysia

Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Barcelona, , Spain

Countries

Brazil; Canada; China; Colombia; India; Malaysia; Spain

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Other Identifiers

VISIONAUG2/2007

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id