• BMC anesthesiology · Jan 2023

    Observational Study

    Ratio of carbon dioxide veno-arterial difference to oxygen arterial-venous difference is not associated with lactate decrease after fluid bolus in critically ill patients with hyperlactatemia: results from a prospective observational study.

    • Keitiane Kaefer, Charalampos Pierrakos, Thomas Nguyen, Dimitrios Velissaris, Rachid Attou, Jacques Devriendt, Sabino Scolletta, and Fabio Silvio Taccone.
    • Intensive Care Department, Brugmann University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
    • BMC Anesthesiol. 2023 Jan 31; 23 (1): 3737.

    BackgroundHigh ratio of the carbon dioxide veno-arterial difference to the oxygen arterial-venous difference (PvaCO2/CavO2) is associated with fluid bolus (FB) induced increase in oxygen consumption (VO2). This study investigated whether PvaCO2/CavO2 was associated with decreases in blood-lactate levels FB in critically ill patients with hyperlactatemia.MethodsThis prospective observational study examined adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) with lactate levels > 1.5 mmol/L who received FBs. Blood-lactate levels were measured before and after FB under unchanged metabolic, respiratory, and hemodynamic conditions. The primary outcome was blood-lactate levels after FB. Significant decreases in blood-lactate levels were considered as blood-lactate levels < 1.5 mmol/L or a decrease of more than 10% compared to baseline.ResultsThe study enrolled 40 critically ill patients, and their median concentration of blood lactate was 2.6 [IQR:1.9 - 3.8] mmol/L. There were 27 (68%) patients with PvaCO2/CavO2 ≥ 1.4 mmHg/ml, and 10 of them had an increase in oxygen consumption (dVO2) ≥ 15% after FB, while 13 (32%) patients had PvaCO2/CavO2 < 1.4 mmHg/ml before FB, and none of them had dVO2 ≥ 15% after FB. FB increased the cardiac index in patients with high and low preinfusion PvaCO2/CavO2 (13.4% [IQR: 8.3 - 20.2] vs. 8.8% [IQR: 2.9 - 17.4], p = 0.34). Baseline PvaCO2/CavO2 was not found to be associated with a decrease in blood lactate after FB (OR: 0.88 [95% CI: 0.39 - 1.98], p = 0.76). A positive correlation was observed between changes in blood lactate and baseline PvaCO2/CavO2 (r = 0.35, p = 0.02).ConclusionsIn critically ill patients with hyperlactatemia, PvaCO2/CavO2 before FB cannot be used to predict decreases in blood-lactate levels after FB. Increased PvaCO2/CavO2 is associated with less decrease in blood-lactate levels.© 2023. The Author(s).

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