Journal
INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
Volume 38, Issue 12, Pages 1965-1973Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2678-x
Keywords
Delirium; Inflammation; Blood coagulation; Critical illness; Mechanical ventilation
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [AG034257]
- Veterans Affairs (VA) Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC)
- NIH [HL103836, AG031322, AG027472, AG035117]
- American Heart Association Established Investigator Award
- VA Clinical Science Research and Development Service (VA Career Development Award)
- VA Tennessee Valley GRECC
- Saint Thomas Foundation (Nashville, TN, USA)
- National Institutes of Health [AG001023, HL007123]
- Hartford Geriatrics Health Outcomes Research Scholars Award Program
- Vanderbilt Physician Scientist Development Program
- Alere Inc.
- Hospira Inc.
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Masimo Corporation
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To assess the associations between a priori-selected markers of inflammation and coagulation and delirium during critical illness. In this prospective cohort study, we collected blood from mechanically ventilated medical intensive care unit (ICU) patients and measured nine plasma markers of inflammation and coagulation. We assessed patients daily for delirium using the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU and used multivariable regression to analyze the associations between plasma markers and subsequent delirium, after adjusting for age, severity of illness, and sepsis. Among the 138 patients studied, with median age of 66 years and median Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II of 27, 107 (78 %) were delirious at some point during the study. Two markers of inflammation and one of coagulation were significantly associated with delirium. After adjusting for covariates, lower plasma concentrations of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and protein C were associated with increased probability of delirium (p = 0.04 and 0.01, respectively), and higher concentrations of soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 (sTNFR1) were associated with increased probability of delirium (p < 0.01). Concentrations of C-reactive protein (p = 0.82), myeloperoxidase (p = 0.11), neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (p = 0.70), D-dimer (p = 0.83), plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (p = 0.98), and Von Willebrand factor antigen (p = 0.65) were not associated with delirium. In this study, MMP-9, protein C, and sTNFR1 were independently associated with subsequent ICU delirium. These results suggest that specific aspects of inflammation and coagulation may play a role in the evolution of delirium during critical illness and that these markers should be examined in larger studies of ICU patients.
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