Intensive Care Department, Brugmann University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
BMC Anesthesiol. 2023 Jan 31;23(1):37. doi: 10.1186/s12871-023-01993-6.
High ratio of the carbon dioxide veno-arterial difference to the oxygen arterial-venous difference (PCO/CO) is associated with fluid bolus (FB) induced increase in oxygen consumption (VO). This study investigated whether PCO/CO was associated with decreases in blood-lactate levels FB in critically ill patients with hyperlactatemia.
This prospective observational study examined adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) with lactate levels > 1.5 mmol/L who received FBs. Blood-lactate levels were measured before and after FB under unchanged metabolic, respiratory, and hemodynamic conditions. The primary outcome was blood-lactate levels after FB. Significant decreases in blood-lactate levels were considered as blood-lactate levels < 1.5 mmol/L or a decrease of more than 10% compared to baseline.
The study enrolled 40 critically ill patients, and their median concentration of blood lactate was 2.6 [IQR:1.9 - 3.8] mmol/L. There were 27 (68%) patients with PCO/CO ≥ 1.4 mmHg/ml, and 10 of them had an increase in oxygen consumption (dVO) ≥ 15% after FB, while 13 (32%) patients had PCO/CO < 1.4 mmHg/ml before FB, and none of them had dVO ≥ 15% after FB. FB increased the cardiac index in patients with high and low preinfusion PCO/CO (13.4% [IQR: 8.3 - 20.2] vs. 8.8% [IQR: 2.9 - 17.4], p = 0.34). Baseline PCO/CO was not found to be associated with a decrease in blood lactate after FB (OR: 0.88 [95% CI: 0.39 - 1.98], p = 0.76). A positive correlation was observed between changes in blood lactate and baseline PCO/CO (r = 0.35, p = 0.02).
In critically ill patients with hyperlactatemia, PCO/CO before FB cannot be used to predict decreases in blood-lactate levels after FB. Increased PCO/CO is associated with less decrease in blood-lactate levels.
二氧化碳静脉-动脉差值与氧动脉-静脉差值的比值高(PCO/CO)与液体冲击(FB)引起的氧耗增加(VO)有关。本研究旨在探讨在伴有高乳酸血症的危重病患者中,PCO/CO 是否与 FB 引起的血乳酸水平降低有关。
本前瞻性观察研究纳入了 ICU 中乳酸水平>1.5mmol/L 的成年患者,并对其进行 FB。在代谢、呼吸和血流动力学条件不变的情况下,分别在 FB 前后测量血乳酸水平。主要结局是 FB 后血乳酸水平。血乳酸水平明显降低定义为血乳酸水平<1.5mmol/L 或与基线相比降低超过 10%。
该研究共纳入 40 名危重病患者,其血乳酸中位数浓度为 2.6 [IQR:1.9-3.8]mmol/L。有 27 名(68%)患者的 PCO/CO≥1.4mmHg/ml,其中 10 名患者在 FB 后 VO 增加≥15%,而 13 名(32%)患者在 FB 前 PCO/CO<1.4mmHg/ml,且他们在 FB 后均无 VO 增加≥15%。在高和低预输注 PCO/CO 的患者中,FB 增加了心指数(13.4%[IQR:8.3-20.2]比 8.8%[IQR:2.9-17.4],p=0.34)。未发现基线 PCO/CO 与 FB 后血乳酸降低有关(OR:0.88 [95%CI:0.39-1.98],p=0.76)。血乳酸的变化与基线 PCO/CO 呈正相关(r=0.35,p=0.02)。
在伴有高乳酸血症的危重病患者中,FB 前的 PCO/CO 不能用于预测 FB 后血乳酸水平的降低。升高的 PCO/CO 与血乳酸水平降低幅度较小有关。