• Shaurya Taran, Doulia M Hamad, Stephan von Düring, Armaan K Malhotra, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Victoria A McCredie, Jeffrey M Singh, Bettina Hansen, Marina Englesakis, and AdhikariNeill K JNKJInterdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Health Policy, Management, an.
• Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: Shaurya.taran@mail.utoronto.ca.
• J Crit Care. 2023 Oct 1; 77: 154341154341.

PurposeAcute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is common in patients with acute brain injury admitted to the ICU. We aimed to identify factors associated with ARDS in this population.MethodsWe searched MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central, Scopus, and Web of Science from inception to January 14, 2022. Three reviewers independently screened articles and selected English-language studies reporting risk factors for ARDS in brain-injured adult patients. Data were extracted on ARDS incidence, adjusted and unadjusted risk factors, and clinical outcomes. Risk of bias was reported using the Quality in Prognostic Studies tool. Certainty of evidence was assessed using GRADE.ResultsWe selected 23 studies involving 6,961,284 patients with acute brain injury. The pooled cumulative incidence of ARDS after brain injury was 17.0% (95%CI 10.7-25.8). In adjusted analysis, factors associated with ARDS included sepsis (odds ratio (OR) 4.38, 95%CI 2.37-8.10; high certainty), history of hypertension (OR 3.11, 95%CI 2.31-4.19; high certainty), pneumonia (OR 2.69, 95%CI 2.35-3.10; high certainty), acute kidney injury (OR 1.44, 95%CI 1.30-1.59; moderate certainty), admission hypoxemia (OR 1.67, 95%CI 1.29-2.17; moderate certainty), male sex (OR 1.30, 95%CI 1.06-1.58; moderate certainty), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (OR 1.27, 95%CI 1.13-1.44; moderate certainty). Development of ARDS was independently associated with increased odds of in-hospital mortality (OR 3.12, 95% CI 1.39-7.00).ConclusionsMultiple risk factors are associated with ARDS in brain-injured patients. These findings could be used to develop prognostic models for ARDS or as prognostic enrichment strategies for patient enrolment in future clinical trials.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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