• Mohamed Elayashy, Mai A Madkour, MahmoudAhmed Abdelaal AhmedAAADepartment of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt., Hisham Hosny, Amr Hussein, Ahmed Nabih, Ahmed Lofty, Hamza Mohamed Hamza, Passaint Hassan, Mohamed Wagih, and Ahmed Kareem Mohamed.
• Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, 7 Elshishiny St., El Maryotia, Faysal, Giza, 12131, Egypt. mohamedelayashy@kasralainy.edu.eg.
• BMC Anesthesiol. 2019 Jun 4; 19 (1): 93.

BackgroundIncreased lung water and the resultant atelectasis are significant pulmonary complications after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in children undergoing cardiac surgery; these complications are observed after CPB than after anaesthesia alone. Ultrafiltration has been shown to decrease total body water and postoperative blood loss and improve the alveolar to arterial oxygen gradient and pulmonary compliance. This study investigated whether conventional ultrafiltration during CPB in paediatric heart surgeries influences post-bypass extravascular lung water (EVLW) assessed by lung ultrasound (LUS).MethodsThis randomized controlled study included 60 patients with congenital heart disease (ASA II-III), aged 1 to 48 months, with a body weight > 3 kg. Conventional ultrafiltration targeting a haematocrit (HCT) level of 28% was performed on the ultrafiltration group, while the control group did not receive ultrafiltration. LUS scores were recorded at baseline and at the end of surgery. The PaO2/FiO2 ratio (arterial oxygen tension divided by the fraction of inspired oxygen), urine output, and haemodynamic parameters were also recorded.ResultsLUS scores were comparable between the two groups both at baseline (p = 0.92) and at the end of surgery (p = 0.95); however, within the same group, the scores at the end of surgery significantly differed from their baseline values in both the ultrafiltration (p = 0.01) and non-ultrafiltration groups (p = 0.02). The baseline PaO2/FiO2 ratio was comparable between both groups. at the end of surgery, The PaO2/FiO2 ratio increased in the ultrafiltration group compared to that in the non-ultrafiltration group, albeit insignificant (p = 0.16). no correlation between the PaO2/FiO2 ratio and LUS score was found at baseline (r = - 0.21, p = 0.31). On the other hand, post-surgical measurements were negatively correlated (r = - 0.41, p = 0.045).ConclusionConventional ultrafiltration did not alter the EVLW when assessed by LUS and oxygenation state. Similarly, ultrafiltration did not affect the urea and creatinine levels, intensive care unit (ICU) stays, ventilation days, or mortality.Trial RegistrationClinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT03146143 registered on 29-April-2017.

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