A comparison of systolic and diastolic time variation with pulse pressure variation as a predictor of fluid responsiveness during pediatric liver transplantation |
Young Jin Moon, Hwa Mi Lee, Jung Won Kim, Hyung Joo Chung, Sooho Lee, In Young Huh, Gyu Sam Hwang |
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Laboratory for Cardiovascular Dynamics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 2Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Gangneung Asan Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Gangneung, Korea. 3Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Korea. inyoung_huh@uuh.ulsan.kr |
Received: 19 March 2015 • Revised: 17 April 2015 • Accepted: 7 May 2015 |
Abstract |
BACKGROUND In pediatric patients, dynamic preload indices to predict fluid responsiveness remain controversial. Because each beat of blood pressure (BP) - waveform - contains evidence of a systolic and diastolic time interval (STI, DTI), we compared pulse pressure variation (PPV) with respiratory STI and DTI variation (STV, DTV) as predictors of fluid responsiveness during pediatric liver transplantation. METHODS A total of 61 datasets from 16 pediatric liver transplant patients (age range one month to seven years), before and after an inferior vena cava clamp was applied, were retrospectively evaluated from electronically archived BP and central venous pressure (CVP) waveforms. STI and DTI were separated by a beat-to-beat blood pressure waveform. STV, DTV and PPV were calculated by averaging three consecutive respiratory cycles. Averaged CVP was used as a static preload index. A PPV threshold of > or =16%, a known cutoff value in pediatric surgery, was used to discriminate fluid responsiveness in the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. RESULTS PPV showed correlations with STV and DTV (r = 0.65 and 0.57, P < 0.001, respectively), but not with CVP (r = -0.30, P = 0.079). The area under the ROC curves (AUC) of STV, DTV and CVP were 0.834, 0.872, and 0.613, respectively. Cut-off values of STV and DTV were 7.7% (sensitivity/specificity, 0.80/0.83) and 7.7% (sensitivity/specificity, 0.70/0.88), respectively. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that STV and DTV from a BP waveform showed the potential to predict fluid responsiveness as a surrogate of PPV during pediatric surgery. |
Key Words:
Children, Fluid responsiveness, Liver transplantation, Systolic time interval |
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