• D Iyer, P Rastogi, A Åneman, and S D'Amours.
• Intensive Care Unit, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Trauma Department, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2014 Nov 1;58(10):1267-75.

BackgroundTo develop a screening tool to identify patients at risk of developing intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) within 24 h of a patient's admission to intensive care unit (ICU).MethodsProspective, observational study of 403 consecutively enrolled patients with an indwelling catheter, admitted to a mixed medical-surgical ICU in a tertiary referral, university hospital. Intra-abdominal pressure was measured at least twice daily and IAH and ACS defined as per consensus definitions.ResultsThirty-nine per cent of patients developed IAH and 2% developed ACS. Abdominal distension, hemoperitoneum/pneumoperitoneum/intra-peritoneal fluid collection, obesity, intravenous fluid received > 2.3 l, abbreviated Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score > 4 points and lactate > 1.4 mmol/l were identified as independent predictors of IAH upon admission to ICU. The presence of three or more of these risk factors at admission identified patients that would develop IAH with a sensitivity of 75% and a specificity of 76%, the development of grades II, III and IV IAH with a sensitivity of 91% and a specificity of 62%. Patients that developed IAH required a significantly longer duration of mechanical ventilation and ICU care. Patients that developed grades II-IV IAH had a significantly higher rate of ICU mortality.ConclusionIAH is a common clinical entity in the intensive care setting that is associated with morbidity and mortality. A screening tool, based on data readily available within a patient's first 24 h in ICU, was developed and effectively identified patients that required intra-abdominal pressure monitoring.© 2014 The Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Foundation. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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