• Critical care medicine · Nov 2009

    Cardiac function index provided by transpulmonary thermodilution behaves as an indicator of left ventricular systolic function.

    • Julien Jabot, Xavier Monnet, Lamia Bouchra, Denis Chemla, Christian Richard, and Jean-Louis Teboul.
    • AP-HP, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Service de Réanimation Médicale, Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
    • Crit. Care Med. 2009 Nov 1; 37 (11): 2913-8.

    ObjectiveTo test whether cardiac function index could actually behave as an indicator of left ventricular systolic function by testing if 1) it increased with inotropic stimulation; 2) it was not altered by fluid loading; 3) it correlated with the echographic left ventricular ejection fraction, considered as the clinical gold standard for measuring left ventricular systolic function, and it reliably tracked the changes in left ventricular ejection fraction during therapeutic intervention. The transpulmonary thermodilution calculates the cardiac function index, which is the ratio of cardiac output over global end-diastolic volume.DesignProspective study.SettingMedical intensive care unit of a university hospital.PatientsThirty-nine patients (n = 48 cases) with acute circulatory failure.InterventionA 500-mL saline administration (n = 24 cases) and a dobutamine infusion (n = 24 cases).Measurements And Main ResultsWe simultaneously measured left ventricular ejection fraction (monoplane or biplane Simpson method) and cardiac function index at baseline and after saline and dobutamine administration. As volume expansion altered neither left ventricular ejection fraction (47 +/- 11% to 47 +/- 11%) nor cardiac function index (4.5 +/- 2.2 to 4.5 +/- 2.1 min(-1)), dobutamine infusion significantly increased left ventricular ejection fraction by 32 +/- 28% and cardiac function index by 29 +/- 22%. Considering the 96 cardiac function index:left ventricular ejection fraction pairs of measurements, cardiac function index and left ventricular ejection fraction were correlated significantly (r = .67, p < .05). A cardiac function index <3.2 min(-1) predicted a left ventricular ejection fraction of <35% with a sensitivity of 81% and a specificity of 88%. Importantly, the changes in left ventricular ejection fraction and in cardiac function index during fluid and dobutamine administration were correlated significantly (r = .79, p < .05).ConclusionsCardiac function index fulfilled the criteria required from a clinical indicator of left ventricular global systolic function. Thus, it could serve as an easy bedside detection of the alteration in left ventricular ejection fraction that should alert the physician and incite to perform an echocardiography. Furthermore, cardiac function index tracked accurately the effects of an inotropic therapy.

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