Does high-dose vasopressor therapy in medical intensive care patients indicate what we already suspect?
| Autor: | J. Hashoul, P. V. Van Heerden, I. Stav, Sigal Sviri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Critical Care Patients Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Intensive care medicine Humans Vasoconstrictor Agents Hospital Mortality Intensive care medicine APACHE Aged Aged 80 and over Dose-Response Relationship Drug Receiver operating characteristic business.industry Mortality rate Low dose Area under the curve Odds ratio Middle Aged Confidence interval Intensive Care Units Treatment Outcome ROC Curve Female Observational study business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Critical Care. 29:157-160 |
| ISSN: | 0883-9441 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcrc.2013.09.004 |
| Popis: | This study was conducted to determine the association between vasopressor requirement and outcome in medical intensive care patients in an environment where treatment is not withdrawn.This was an observational study of patients in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) over a period of 18 months to determine the correlation between vasopressor requirement and mortality. Outcome was determined for all medical ICU patients, for patients receiving "low dose" (40 μg/min) vasopressors (noradrenaline and/or adrenaline) or "high dose" (≥ 40 μg/min) vasopressors. Receiver operator characteristic curves were constructed for ICU and hospital mortality and high-dose vasopressor use. High-dose vasopressor use as an independent predictor for ICU and hospital mortality was also determined by multiple logistic regression analysis.Patients receiving high-dose noradrenaline at any time during their ICU admission had an 84.3% mortality in ICU and 90% in hospital. The receiver operator characteristic curves for high-dose vasopressors had an area under the curve of 0.799 for ICU mortality and 0.779 for hospital mortality. High-dose vasopressor was an independent predictor of ICU mortality, with an odds ratio of 5.1 (confidence interval, 2.02-12.9; P = .001), and of hospital mortality, with an odds ratio of 3.82 (confidence interval 1.28-11.37; P = .016).The requirement for high-dose vasopressor therapy at any time during ICU admission was associated with a very high mortality rate in the ICU and the hospital. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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