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Table 1 Eligibility criteria for IVC CLAMP.

From: IVC CLAMP: infrahepatic inferior vena cava clamping during hepatectomy - a randomised controlled trial in an interdisciplinary setting

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years

• Presence of medical conditions putting the individual patient at increased risk for not tolerating liver resection:

• Elective hepatic resection due to any reason

   - Liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh B or C)

• American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) score I to III [26]

   - (Hereditary) coagulopathy

• Written informed consent

• Presence of medical conditions putting the individual patient at increased risk of not tolerating at least one of this trial's study interventions:

 

   - Severe heart disease (e.g. severe coronary artery disease requiring intervention, cardiac insufficiency NYHA stage IV) [16]

 

   - Pulmonary hypertension

 

   - Renal insufficiency (serum creatinine > 2 mg/dl or > 177 μmol/l; conversion factor 88.4 or requiring dialysis)

 

   - Uncorrected electrolyte imbalance

 

• Atrial fibrillation

 

• For female patients: pregnancy or lactation

 

• Technical impossibility of hepatic resection

 

• Participation in other clinical trials or observation period of competing trials interfering with the endpoints of this trial

 

• Former participation in the clinical trial

 

• Suspected lack of compliance

 

• Impaired mental state or language problems