Postoperative Complications Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Pragmatic Multi-center Trial of Goal-directed Fluid Management Based on Pulse Pressure Variation Monitoring During High-risk Surgery
Background: Intraoperative fluid therapy guided by mechanical ventilation-induced
pulse-pressure variation (PPV) may improve outcomes after major surgery. It was tested this
hypothesis in a multi-center study.
Methods: The patients were included in two periods: a first control period (control group;
n=147) in which intraoperative fluids were given according to clinical judgment. After a
training period, intraoperative fluid management was titrated to maintain PPV< 10% in 109
surgical patients (PPV group). It was performed 1:1 propensity score matching to ensure the
groups were comparable with regard to age, weight, duration of surgery, and type of
operation. The primary endpoint was postoperative hospital length of stay.
This open label, multicenter, before-and-after trial study was carried out in three
hospitals, Hospital das Clínicas of São Paulo University Medical School, Hospital São Paulo
of São Paulo Federal University and Hospital Padre Albino.
Subsequently obtaining IRB approval (Ethical Committee N° 0616/06 HCFMUSP) and written
informed consent, high-risk patients undergoing open major surgery under general anesthesia
and who required ICU admission postoperatively were enrolled from June 2007 to April 2008
(control period), followed by a phase-out period (April 2008 to July 2008) and an
intervention period (July 2008 to June 2010).
High-risk surgical patients were defined as those 60 years of age or older referred to
postoperative ICU care due to the presence of at least one clinical comorbidity such as
coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cerebrovascular disease,
poor nutritional status, a predicted intraoperative period greater than 6 hours or predicted
acute massive blood loss. All of these criteria have been used in previous studies, and they
were adopted for this study. Patients with severe aortic regurgitation, cardiac arrhythmias,
congestive heart failure, patients undergoing renal replacement therapy, those undergoing
palliative surgery were excluded from the study.
Patients were enrolled into a standard fluid resuscitation period (Control group) or a
goal-directed fluid-management group based on pulse pressure variation during the
intervention period (Intervention group). Following the control period, the three-month
phase-out period included education and preparation of all anesthesiology staff and logistic
arrangements for the evaluation of fluid responsiveness using automated PPV measurements.
Finally, the intervention period was replicated in the same season of the year as the
control period.
Anesthesia care and fluid management Intraoperative monitoring standards for high-risk
patients in all institutions included electrocardiography, invasive arterial blood pressure
catheters, pulse oximetry, temperature monitoring, and measurement of inspiratory and
expiratory gas concentrations. Additional intraoperative monitoring such as central venous
catheterization was indicated on an individual basis by the attending anesthesiologist. In
the interventional phase, however, intraoperative fluid adjustment was strictly directed by
online PPV assessment.
In the control period, patients were given intravenous fluids at the discretion of the
anesthesiologist based on institutional protocol using 250ml of crystalloids or 100ml of
colloids based on central venous pressure (CVP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP)
measurements. The aim was to keep the CVP ≥ 8mmHg and MAP ≥ 65mmHg. Fluid boluses were
administered up to a total of 1000ml, if patients did not attain a MAP of >65 mmHg, a
vasopressor drug was administered. During this initial phase, the anesthesiologists were
blind to the enrollment of the patient in the study. In the interventional phase of the
study, fluids boluses of colloids were given to maintain continuously measured PPV at 10% or
less.
In order to evaluate PPV during surgery, an arterial line was connected to a monitor (DX
2020, Dixtal, São Paulo, SP, Brasil) specifically developed to detect respiratory variations
in the arterial pressure curve, allowing for the automatic calculation of beat to beat pulse
pressure, as previously described. PPV was calculated using the following formula:
PPV = 100 × (PPmax - PPmin)/[(PPmax + PPmin)/2] The mean value of PPV was automatically
calculated over three consecutive floating periods of eight respiratory cycles and the
median value of this triple determination was displayed on the multiparameter monitor and
updated after each new respiratory cycle. The shape of the arterial curve was checked
visually for damping throughout the study period. The respective hemodynamic protocols in
both groups were continued until the end of surgery.
In the interventional period, the mechanical ventilator settings were adjusted using the
following parameters: a) a tidal volume of 8 mL.kg-1 (ideal body weight) in volume control
mode; b) an inspiratory time of 33% of the respiratory cycle; c) 5 cmH2O positive end
expiratory pressure and d) respiratory rate adjusted to maintain an end-tidal capnometry of
35 mmHg to enable the measurement of PPV.
During the postoperative period, critical care and ward teams not involved in the
intraoperative management or in data collection managed the patients. These individuals were
not informed of patient allocation groups or study period.
Data Collection and Monitoring During the study, an investigator not participating in
patient care collected all study data prospectively up until hospital discharge or patient
death. Age, weight, height, sex, comorbidities such as cirrhosis, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, coronary artery disease, other
cardiac disease, diabetes mellitus and cerebrovascular disease were recorded preoperatively
as well as standard routine biochemical blood tests were performed. Mechanical ventilation
settings, PPV values at 30 minutes' intervals, the use of vasopressors and inotropes and the
duration of surgery were recorded during intraoperative. Heart rate (HR), mean arterial
pressure (MAP), peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2), hemoglobin concentration and
esophageal temperature were registered at the beginning and at the end of the surgical
procedure. When available, central venous pressure (CVP) was recorded at the end of the
surgery. The total volumes of crystalloids, colloids and blood products, percentage of
patients receiving red blood cell transfusion, and use of vasopressors and inotropic drugs
were recorded.
After ICU admission and 24 hours later, the following parameters were collected: HR, MAP,
SpO2, CVP and arterial lactate concentration. In the ICU, the total volumes of infused
crystalloids, colloids and hemocomponents were recorded as well as the percentage of
patients receiving red blood cell pack (RBCP) unit transfusion. Postoperative complications
were assessed daily until patient discharge according to previously published criteria: 1)
vasopressor need was named circulatory shock defined by the need for continuous
norepinephrine infusion after adequate fluid adjustment; 2) major ICU infections (lung,
abdominal, urinary tract, line-related sepsis or wound infections); 3) respiratory
dysfunction, defined as recently as recent partial pressure of oxygen in arterial
blood/fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) of <200 without prior patient history; 4) need for
reoperation; 5) need for mechanical ventilation; 6) hematologic dysfunction, defined as a
platelet count of < 100,000/μL or prothrombin activity of <50%; 7) bleeding events that
needed transfusion of platelets or coagulation factors; 8) • renal dysfunction, defined as a
urine output of <500 mL/day, a serum creatinine level of >1.9 mg/dL, or dialysis for acute
renal failure; and/or; 9) hepatic dysfunction, defined as a serum bilirubin level of >1.9
mg/dL. Postoperative length of stay and mortality were also recorded.
Upon completion of data collection from each patient, an independent Data Safety and
Monitoring Board (DSMB) member conducted data quality monitoring by comparing the collected
study information to the information contained in institutional medical records.
Data analysis The primary outcome of this study was postoperative length of stay. The
secondary outcomes included the volume of infused fluids, RBCP transfusion, incidence of
organ dysfunction, the incidence of postoperative complications and a composite outcome
encompassing postoperative complications and hospital mortality rate. By using the minimal
clinically significant difference between groups, eighty-one patients were required in each
group to find a reduction of 2 days (from 14±5 days in the Control Group to 12±4 days in the
Intervention Group), with a Type-I error of 0.05 (one-sided) and a power of 0.8.
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