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. 2021 Oct 30;1(1):12.
doi: 10.1186/s44158-021-00014-7.

Should we use diastolic function parameters to determine preload responsiveness in cardiac surgery? A pilot study

Athanase Courbe  1 , Clotilde Perrault-Hébert  1 , Iolanda Ion  1 , Georges Desjardins  1 , Annik Fortier  2 , André Denault  1 , Alain Deschamps  1 , Pierre Couture  3
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Should we use diastolic function parameters to determine preload responsiveness in cardiac surgery? A pilot study

Athanase Courbe et al. J Anesth Analg Crit Care. .

Abstract

Background: Left ventricular (LV) diastolic function (DF) may play an important role in predicting fluid responsiveness. However, few studies assessed the role of diastolic function in predicting fluid responsiveness. The aim of this pilot study was to assess whether parameters of right and left diastolic function assessed with transesophageal echocardiography, including the mitral E/e' ratio, is associated with fluid responsiveness among patients undergoing elective bypass graft surgery. We also sought to compare other methods of fluid responsiveness assessment, including echocardiographic and hemodynamic parameters, pulse pressure variation, and stroke volume variation (SVV) (arterial pulse contour analysis, Flotrac/Vigileo system).

Results: We prospectively studied seventy patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) monitored with a radial arterial catheter, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), and a pulmonary artery catheter (for cardiac output measurements), before and after the administration of 500 mL of crystalloid over 10 min after the anesthetic induction. Thirteen patients were excluded (total of 57 patients). Fluid responsiveness was defined as an increase in cardiac index of ≥ 15%. There were 21 responders (36.8%) and 36 non-responders (63.2%). No difference in baseline pulsed wave Doppler echocardiographic measurements of any components of the mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonary and hepatic venous flows were found between responders and non-responders. There was no difference in MV tissue Doppler measurements between responders and non-responders, including E/e' ratio (8.7 ± 4.1 vs. 8.5 ± 2.8 in responders vs. non-responders, P = 0.85). SVV was the only independent variable to predict an increase in cardiac index by multivariate analysis (P = 0.0208, OR = 1.196, 95% CI (1.028-1.393)).

Conclusions: In this pilot study, we found that no parameters of right and left ventricular diastolic function were associated with fluid responsiveness in patients undergoing CABG. SVV was the most useful parameter to predict fluid responsiveness.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov , NCT02714244 . Registered 21 March 2016-retrospectively registered.

Keywords: Cardiac surgery; Fluid responsiveness; Left ventricular diastolic function.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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