• Br J Anaesth · Oct 2024

    Heart failure diagnostic accuracy, intraoperative fluid management, and postoperative acute kidney injury: a single-centre prospective observational study.

    • Michael R Mathis, Kamrouz Ghadimi, Andrew Benner, Elizabeth S Jewell, Allison M Janda, Hyeon Joo, Michael D Maile, Jessica R Golbus, Keith D Aaronson, Milo C Engoren, and Michigan Congestive Heart Failure Investigators.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Computational Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Electronic address: mathism@med.umich.edu.
    • Br J Anaesth. 2024 Oct 9.

    BackgroundThe accurate diagnosis of heart failure (HF) before major noncardiac surgery is frequently challenging. The impact of diagnostic accuracy for HF on intraoperative practice patterns and clinical outcomes remains unknown.MethodsWe performed an observational study of adult patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery at an academic hospital from 2015 to 2019. A preoperative clinical diagnosis of HF was defined by keywords in the preoperative assessment or a diagnosis code. Medical records of patients with and without HF clinical diagnoses were reviewed by a multispecialty panel of physician experts to develop an adjudicated HF reference standard. The exposure of interest was an adjudicated diagnosis of heart failure. The primary outcome was volume of intraoperative fluid administered. The secondary outcome was postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI).ResultsFrom 40 659 surgeries, a stratified subsample of 1018 patients were reviewed by a physician panel. Among patients with adjudicated diagnoses of HF, those without a clinical diagnosis (false negatives) more commonly had preserved left ventricular ejection fractions and fewer comorbidities. Compared with false negatives, an accurate diagnosis of HF (true positives) was associated with 470 ml (95% confidence interval: 120-830; P=0.009) lower intraoperative fluid administration and lower risk of AKI (adjusted odds ratio:0.39, 95% confidence interval 0.18-0.89). For patients without adjudicated diagnoses of HF, non-HF was not associated with differences in either fluids administered or AKI.ConclusionsAn accurate preoperative diagnosis of heart failure before noncardiac surgery is associated with reduced intraoperative fluid administration and less acute kidney injury. Targeted efforts to improve preoperative diagnostic accuracy for heart failure may improve perioperative outcomes.Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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