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Prediction of fluid responsiveness using lung recruitment manoeuvre in paediatric patients receiving lung-protective
Eun-Hee Kim1, Ji-Hyun Lee, Young-Eun Jang
1From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (E-HK, J-HL, Y-EJ, S-HJ, H-SK, S-AC, J-TK).
Background:
Pressure-based dynamic variables are poor predictors of fluid responsiveness in children, and their predictability is expected to reduce further during lung-protective ventilation with a low tidal volume.
Objective:
We hypothesised that lung recruitment manoeuvre (LRM)-induced changes in dynamic variables improve their ability to predict fluid responsiveness in children.
Design:
Prospective observational study.
Setting:
Tertiary care children's hospital, single-centre study performed from June 2017 to May 2019.
Patients:
We included patients less than 7 years of age undergoing cardiac surgery. Neonates and patients with pulmonary hypertension, significant dysrhythmia, ventricular ejection fraction of less than 30% or pulmonary disease were excluded.
Intervention:
All patients were provided with lung-protective volume-controlled ventilation (tidal volume 6 ml kg-1, positive end-expiratory pressure 6 cmH2O). A LRM was applied with a continuous inspiratory pressure of 25 cmH2O for 20 s.
Main Outcome Measure:
The ability of dynamic variables to predict fluid responsiveness was evaluated by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [area under the curve (AUC)]. Fluid responsiveness was defined as an increase in the cardiac index by more than 15% with crystalloid administration (10 ml kg-1).
Results:
Thirty patients were included in the final analysis, of whom 19 were responders. The baseline pleth variability index (PVI) (AUC 0.794, 95% confidence interval 0.608 to 0.919, P < 0.001) and LRM-induced PVI (AUC 0.711, 95% confidence interval 0.517 to 0.861, P = 0.026) could predict fluid responsiveness. The respiratory variation of pulse oximetry photoplethysmographic waveform and pulse pressure variation did not predict fluid responsiveness regardless of the LRM.
Conclusion:
The PVI is effective in predicting fluid responsiveness in paediatric patients with lung-protective ventilation regardless of a LRM. However, the LRM did not improve the ability of the other dynamic variables to predict fluid responsiveness in these patients.
Clinical Trial Registration:
www.clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT03184961.
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