• Annals of intensive care · Aug 2021

    P/FP ratio: incorporation of PEEP into the PaO2/FiO2 ratio for prognostication and classification of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    • Sunitha Palanidurai, Jason Phua, Yiong Huak Chan, and Amartya Mukhopadhyay.
    • Intensive Care Unit, Alexandra Hospital, National University Health System, 378 Alexandra Road, Singapore, 159964, Singapore. palanisunitha@gmail.com.
    • Ann Intensive Care. 2021 Aug 9; 11 (1): 124.

    BackgroundThe current Berlin definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) uses the PaO2/FiO2 (P/F) ratio to classify severity. However, for the same P/F ratio, a patient on a higher positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) may have more severe lung injury than one on a lower PEEP.ObjectivesWe designed a new formula, the P/FP ratio, incorporating PEEP into the P/F ratio and multiplying with a correction factor of 10 [(PaO2*10)/(FiO2*PEEP)], to evaluate if it better predicts hospital mortality compared to the P/F ratio post-intubation and to assess the resultant changes in severity classification of ARDS.MethodsWe categorized patients from a dataset of seven ARDS network trials using the thresholds of ≤ 100 (severe), 101-200 (moderate), and 201-300 (mild) for both P/F (mmHg) and P/FP (mmHg/cmH2O) ratios and evaluated hospital mortality using areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC).ResultsOut of 3,442 patients, 1,057 (30.7%) died. The AUC for mortality was higher for the P/FP ratio than the P/F ratio for PEEP levels > 5 cmH2O: 0.710 (95% CI 0.691-0.730) versus 0.659 (95% CI 0.637-0.681), P < 0.001. Improved AUC was seen with increasing PEEP levels; for PEEP ≥ 18 cmH2O: 0.963 (95% CI 0.947-0.978) versus 0.828 (95% CI 0.765-0.891), P < 0.001. When the P/FP ratio was used instead of the P/F ratio, 12.5% and 15% of patients with moderate and mild ARDS, respectively, were moved to more severe categories, while 13.9% and 33.6% of patients with severe and moderate ARDS, respectively, were moved to milder categories. The median PEEP and FiO2 were 14 cmH2O and 0.70 for patients reclassified to severe ARDS, and 5 cmH2O and 0.40 for patients reclassified to mild ARDS.ConclusionsThe multifactorial P/FP ratio has a greater predictive validity for hospital mortality in ARDS than the P/F ratio. Changes in severity classification with the P/FP ratio reflect both true illness severity and the applied PEEP strategy.Trial RegistrationClinialTrials.gov-NCT03946150.© 2021. The Author(s).

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