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CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 1412-1420Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318275cece
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fluid challenge; oxygen consumption; shock; tissue oxygenation; veno-arterial carbon dioxide gap; venous oxygen saturation
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- Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris
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Objectives: During circulatory failure, the ultimate goal of treatments that increase cardiac output is to reduce tissue hypoxia. This can only occur if oxygen consumption depends on oxygen delivery. We compared the ability of central venous oxygen saturation and markers of anaerobic metabolism to predict whether a fluid-induced increase in oxygen delivery results in an increase in oxygen consumption. Design: Prospective study. Setting: ICU. Patients: Fifty-one patients with an acute circulatory failure (78% of septic origin). Measurements: Before and after a volume expansion (500 mL of saline), we measured cardiac index, o(2)-and Co-2-derived variables and lactate. Main Results: Volume expansion increased cardiac index >= 15% in 49% of patients (volume-responders). Oxygen delivery significantly increased in these 25 patients (+32% +/- 16%, p < 0.0001). An increase in oxygen consumption >= 15% concomitantly occurred in 56% of these 25 volume-responders (+38% +/- 28%). Compared with the volume-responders in whom oxygen consumption did not increase, the volume-responders in whom oxygen consumption increased >= 15% were characterized by a higher lactate (2.3 +/- 1.1 mmol/L vs. 5.5 +/- 4.0 mmol/L, respectively) and a higher ratio of the veno-arterial carbon dioxide tension difference (P(v - a)Co-2) over the arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C(a - v)o(2)). A fluid-induced increase in oxygen consumption greater than or equal to 15% was not predicted by baseline central venous oxygen saturation but by high baseline lactate and (P(v - a)Co-2/C(a - v)o(2) ratio (areas under the receiving operating characteristics curves: 0.68 +/- 0.11, 0.94 +/- 0.05, and 0.91 +/- 0.06). In volume-nonresponders, volume expansion did not significantly change cardiac index, but the oxygen delivery decreased due to a hemodilution-induced decrease in hematocrit. Conclusions: In volume-responders, unlike markers of anaerobic metabolism, central venous oxygen saturation did not allow the prediction of whether a fluid-induced increase in oxygen delivery would result in an increase in oxygen consumption. This suggests that along with indicators of volume-responsiveness, the indicators of anaerobic metabolism should be considered instead of central venous oxygen saturation for starting hemodynamic resuscitation. (Crit Care Med 2013; 41: 1412-1420)
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