Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111643
Karam Nam MD, PhD, Jae-Woo Ju MD
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111642
Dale N. Bongbong , Waseem Abdou , Engy T. Said , Rodney A. Gabriel
Study objective
Newer regional anesthesia techniques and minimally invasive surgeries have yielded decreased postoperative pain scores, potentially leading to decreased need for perioperative epidural analgesia. Limited literature is available on trends in usage rates of epidurals. The objective of this study was to identify trends in perioperative epidural analgesia rates among multiple fields of surgery.
Methods
All patients undergoing general, thoracic, urologic, plastic, vascular, orthopedic, or gynecological surgery in 2014–2020 were included from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database of over 700 hospitals in the U.S. and 11 different countries. Annual trends in epidural analgesia for all surgeries and each surgical specialty were assessed by mixed effects multivariable logistic regression. The odds ratios (OR) and 99 % confidence intervals (CI) were reported.
Results
There were 3,111,435 patients from 2014 to 2020 that were included in the final analysis, in which 107,209 (3.4 %) received perioperative epidural analgesia. Among all surgeries combined, epidural use throughout the study period decreased (OR 0.98 per year, 99 % CI 0.97–0.98, P < 0.001). When only analyzing the surgeries with the top 5 most frequent epidural use per specialty, there was no statistically significant trend in epidural utilization (OR 0.99 per year, 99 % CI 0.99–1.00, P = 0.09). However, there was an increasing trend in epidural utilization in general surgery (OR 1.05 per year, 99 % CI 1.03–1.07, P < 0.001) and vascular surgery (OR 1.08 per year, 99 % CI 1.05–1.10, P < 0.001).
Conclusion
Rates of perioperative epidural analgesia use has decreased in recent years overall, however, among surgeries within the general surgery and vascular surgery specialty, utilization has increased for procedures that have the highest rates of usage.
研究目的更新的区域麻醉技术和微创手术降低了术后疼痛评分,从而有可能减少围术期硬膜外镇痛的需求。有关硬膜外镇痛使用率趋势的文献有限。本研究的目的是确定多个外科领域围术期硬膜外镇痛率的趋势。方法从美国和 11 个不同国家的 700 多家医院的国家外科质量改进计划数据库中纳入 2014-2020 年接受普外科、胸外科、泌尿外科、整形外科、血管外科、骨科或妇科手术的所有患者。通过混合效应多变量逻辑回归评估了所有手术和各外科专科硬膜外镇痛的年度趋势。结果从2014年到2020年,共有3,111,435名患者被纳入最终分析,其中107,209人(3.4%)接受了围手术期硬膜外镇痛。在所有手术中,硬膜外镇痛的使用在整个研究期间都有所减少(OR 每年 0.98,99 % CI 0.97-0.98,P <0.001)。如果只分析每个专科硬膜外麻醉使用最频繁的前五位手术,硬膜外麻醉使用率没有统计学意义上的显著趋势(OR 每年 0.99,99 % CI 0.99-1.00,P = 0.09)。结论近年来,围术期硬膜外镇痛的使用率总体上有所下降,但在普外科和血管外科的手术中,使用率最高的手术的硬膜外镇痛使用率有所上升。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111639
Chih-Ping Yang , Ting-Sian Yu , Kuo-Chuan Hung , Kuo-Mao Lan
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Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111638
Alessandro De Cassai , Burhan Dost , Giulia Aviani Fulvio , Esra Turunc , Paolo Navalesi
{"title":"Dissecting the efficacy of erector spinae plane block: A cadaveric study analysis of anesthetic spread to ventral rami","authors":"Alessandro De Cassai , Burhan Dost , Giulia Aviani Fulvio , Esra Turunc , Paolo Navalesi","doi":"10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15506,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Anesthesia","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 111638"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111632
He-Xuan Wang , Xue-Hua Huang , Li-Qing Ma , Zhou-Jing Yang , Hai-Lian Wang , Bo Xu , Meng-Qiang Luo
Study objective
The lactate-to-albumin ratio (LAR) has been confirmed to be an effective prognostic marker in sepsis, heart failure, and acute respiratory failure. However, the relationship between LAR and mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains unclear. We aim to evaluate the predictive value of LAR for ARDS patients.
Design
A retrospective cohort study.
Setting
Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (v2.2) database.
Patients.
769 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS).
Interventions
We divided the patients into two subgroups according to the primary study endpoint (28-days all-cause mortality): the 28-day survivors and the 28-day non-survivors.
Measures
Multivariate Cox Regression, Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) and Kaplan–Meier survival analysis were used to investigate the relationship between LAR and short-time mortality in patients with ARDS.
Main results
The 28-day mortality was 38 % in this study. Multivariable Cox regression analysis showed that LAR was an independent predictive factor for 28-day mortality (HR 1.11, 95 %CI: 1.06–1.16, P < 0.001). The area under curve (AUC) of LAR in the ROC was 70.34 % (95 %CI: 66.53 % - 74.15 %) that provided significantly higher discrimination compared with lactate (AUC = 68.00 %, P = 0.0007) or albumin (AUC = 63.17 %, P = 0.002) alone. LAR was also not inferior to SAPSII with the AUC of 73.44 % (95 %CI: 69.84 % - 77.04 %, P = 0.21). Additionally, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis displayed that ARDS patients with high LAR (> the cut-off value 0.9055) had a significantly higher 28-day overall mortality rate (P < 0.001) and in-hospital mortality rate (P < 0.001). However, patients in high LAR group had shorter length of hospital stay (P < 0.001), which might be caused by higher in-hospital mortality.
Conclusions
We confirmed that there was a positive correlation between LAR and 28-day mortality. This could provide anesthesiologists and critical care physicians with a more convenient tool than SAPSII without being superior for detecting ARDS patients with poor prognosis timely.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111633
Richard P Dutton
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Pub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111565
Tom D. Vermeulen MD , Liselotte Hol MD , Pien Swart BSc , Michael Hiesmayr MD, PhD , Gary H. Mills MD, PhD , Christian Putensen MD, PhD , Werner Schmid MD, PhD , Ary Serpa Neto MD, PhD , Paolo Severgnini MD, PhD , Marcos F. Vidal Melo MD, PhD , Hermann Wrigge MD, PhD , Markus W. Hollmann MD, PhD , Marcelo Gama de Abreu MD, PhD , Marcus J. Schultz MD, PhD , Sabrine N. Hemmes MD, PhD , David M. van Meenen MD, PhD
Study objective
Male sex has inconsistently been associated with the development of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). These studies were different in size, design, population and preoperative risk. We reanalysed the database of ‘Local ASsessment of Ventilatory management during General Anaesthesia for Surgery study’ (LAS VEGAS) to evaluate differences between females and males with respect to PPCs.
Design, setting and patients
Post hoc unmatched and matched analysis of LAS VEGAS, an international observational study in patients undergoing intraoperative ventilation under general anaesthesia for surgery in 146 hospitals across 29 countries. The primary endpoint was a composite of PPCs in the first 5 postoperative days. Individual PPCs, hospital length of stay and mortality were secondary endpoints. Propensity score matching was used to create a similar cohort regarding type of surgery and epidemiological factors with a known association with development of PPCs.
Main results
The unmatched cohort consisted of 9697 patients; 5342 (55.1%) females and 4355 (44.9%) males. The matched cohort consisted of 6154 patients; 3077 (50.0%) females and 3077 (50.0%) males. The incidence in PPCs was neither significant between females and males in the unmatched cohort (10.0 vs 10.7%; odds ratio (OR) 0.93 [0.81–1.06]; P = 0.255), nor in the matched cohort (10.5 vs 10.0%; OR 1.05 [0.89–1.25]; P = 0.556). New invasive ventilation occurred less often in females in the unmatched cohort. Hospital length of stay and mortality were similar between females and males in both cohorts.
Conclusions
In this conveniently–sized worldwide cohort of patients receiving intraoperative ventilation under general anaesthesia for surgery, the PPC incidence was not significantly different between sexes.
Registration
LAS VEGAS was registered at clinicaltrial.gov (study identifier NCT01601223).
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Pub Date : 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111631
Dennis Christoph Harrer , Patricia Mester , Clara-Larissa Lang , Tanja Elger , Tobias Seefeldt , Lorenz Wächter , Judith Dönz , Nina Doblinger , Muriel Huss , Georgios Athanasoulas , Lea U. Krauß , Johannes Heymer , Wolfgang Herr , Tobias Schilling , Stephan Schmid , Martina Müller , Vlad Pavel
Background
Detailed reports are scarce on minimally-invasive tracheostomy (MIT) techniques for critically ill patients with challenging anatomy or complex coagulopathies. In such high-risk patients, conventional percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) may lead to severe complications.
Methods
Aiming to broaden the scope of MIT for patients previously excluded due to high risks, we developed a new care bundle (MIT technique), specifically designed for intensive care specialists. Our study examined the outcomes of MIT in 32 high-risk patients treated in an ICU of a University Hospital with specific focus on gastrointestinal and liver diseases.
Results
We have modified the conventional PDT technique by incorporating an initial skin incision, blunt dissection, diaphanoscopy-guided probe puncture, and continuous bronchoscopic monitoring. Our care bundle also introduces an anterolateral approach for tracheal entry, a significant advancement for patients with complex neck anatomy or dense vasculature, where an anterolateral trajectory avoids midline blood vessels. This enhanced method has proven to be safer than traditional PDT, with a notable absence of post-procedural hemorrhages, cannula misplacements, or infections.
Conclusion
The use of our refined care bundle enabled swift minimally-invasive tracheostomy in high-risk patients without the occurrence of serious complications.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111634
Guanyu Yang, Qinjun Chu
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