In:
Circulation, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 132, No. suppl_3 ( 2015-11-10)
Kurzfassung:
Introduction: Patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest (CA) often require vasopressors for hemodynamic support and frequently have cardiac dysfunction identified on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). The association between TTE parameters and vasopressor requirements is not well-described. Hypothesis: Echocardiographic findings early after resuscitation from CA will predict vasopressor requirements. Methods: Prospective registry of patients resuscitated from CA underwent TTE within 24 hours after CA. We determined 2D measurements, LVEF, spectral Doppler of mitral inflow (E) and LV outflow and systolic and early diastolic (e’) tissue Doppler of the mitral annulus. Using Pearson correlation coefficients, we examined the association between TTE parameters and number of vasopressor drugs, cumulative vasopressor index (CVI) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score. Mean values of TTE parameters were compared in patients with high and low cardiovascular SOFA subscores using t-tests. Results: Among the 55 patients, LV end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD, r = -0.498 to -0.569, p = 0.0001 to 0.0003), LV end-systolic diameter (LVESD, r = -0.392 to -0.463, p = 0.0008 to 0.0053) and LV relative wall thickness (RWT, r = 0.452 to 0.503, p = 0.0002 to 0.0011) correlated significantly with admission and peak 24 hour number of vasopressor drugs and CVI. LVEDD (r = -0.324, p = 0.0229), LVESD (r = -0.290, p = 0.0431), RWT (0.429, p = 0.0021) and septal e’ velocity (r = -0.344, p = 0.037) correlated with admission SOFA score. Other TTE parameters including LVEF did not correlate with vasopressor requirements or SOFA score. Patients with cardiovascular SOFA subscore = 4 had lower LVEDD (4.16cm vs. 5.0cm, p = 0.0008), lower LVESD (3.07cm vs. 4.03cm, p = 0.0008), higher RWT (0.48 vs. 0.65, p = 0.0026) and lower E/e’ ratio (10.84 vs. 18.91, p = 0.0169) compared with patients with cardiovascular SOFA subscore 〈 4. Conclusions: A smaller, thicker LV cavity by echocardiography at 24 hours after CA is associated with higher vasopressor requirements and more severe organ failure. Patients who required more vasopressor support had smaller, thicker LV cavities and a lower E/e’ ratio. LV systolic dysfunction was not a significant predictor of vasopressor requirements.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0009-7322
,
1524-4539
DOI:
10.1161/circ.132.suppl_3.18302
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Publikationsdatum:
2015
ZDB Id:
1466401-X
