Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness (ESCAPE)

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Accession Number
HLB00710909a

Study Type
Clinical Trial

Collection Type
Open BioLINCC Study See bottom of this webpage for request information

Study Period
2001-2006

NHLBI Division
DCVS

Dataset(s) Last Updated
August 5, 2024

Consent

Commercial Use Data Restrictions No

Data Restrictions Based On Area Of Research No

Objectives

To test whether pulmonary artery catheter use was safe and could improve clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized with recurrent heart failure.

Background

Pulmonary artery catheters have been used to guide adjustment of therapy in multiple settings, but recent studies have raised concern that pulmonary artery catheters may lead to increased mortality in hospitalized patients.

Participants

A total of 433 patients at 26 sites were enrolled, and randomly assigned to receive therapy guided by clinical assessment and the pulmonary artery catheter or clinical assessment alone.

Conclusions

Therapy to reduce volume overload during hospitalization for heart failure led to marked improvement in signs and symptoms of elevated filling pressures, with or without the pulmonary artery catheter. Addition of the pulmonary artery catheter to careful clinical assessment did not impact overall mortality and hospitalization. Future trials should test noninvasive assessments with specific treatment strategies that could be used to better tailor therapy for both survival time and survival quality as valued by patients. (JAMA 2005;294:1625-1633)

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