• Jan Horejsek, Martin Balík, Jan Kunstýř, Pavel Michálek, Petr Kopecký, Tomáš Brožek, Tereza Bartošová, Adam Fink, Petr Waldauf, and Michal Porizka.
• Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, 12808, Czech Republic.
• J Clin Monit Comput. 2023 Dec 1; 37 (6): 156315711563-1571.

PurposeThe objective of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of internal jugular vein (IJV) collapsibility as a predictor of fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing patients after cardiac surgery.MethodsIn this prospective observational study, spontaneously breathing patients were enrolled on the first postoperative day after coronary artery bypass grafting. Hemodynamic data coupled with simultaneous ultrasound assessment of the IJV were collected at baseline and after passive leg raising test (PLR). Continuous cardiac index (CI), stroke volume (SV), and stroke volume variation (SVV) were assessed with FloTracTM/EV1000™. Fluid responsiveness was defined as an increase in CI ≥ 10% after PLR. We compared the differences in measured variables between fluid responders and non-responders and tested the ability of ultrasonographic IJV indices to predict fluid responsiveness.ResultsFifty-four patients were included in the study. Seventeen (31.5%) were fluid responders. The responders demonstrated significantly lower inspiratory and expiratory diameters of the IJV at baseline, but IJV collapsibility was comparable (P = 0.7). Using the cut-off point of 20%, IJV collapsibility predicted fluid responsiveness with a sensitivity of 76.5% and specificity of 38.9%, ROC AUC 0.55.ConclusionIn spontaneously breathing patients after surgical coronary revascularisation, collapsibility of the internal jugular vein did not predict fluid responsiveness.© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.

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