Are Optimal Cerebral Perfusion Pressure and Cerebrovascular Autoregulation Related to Long-term Outcome in Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage?
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
- Vol. 24 (1), 3-8
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ana.0b013e318224030a
Abstract
Continuous assessment of the cerebrovascular autoregulation (CVA) through use of the pressure reactivity index (PRx), a moving linear correlation coefficient between mean arterial blood pressure and intracranial pressure, has been effective in optimizing cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPopt) in traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients. This study investigates the feasibility of measuring CPPopt in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) by continuously assessing the CVA. Twenty-nine aSAH patients were enrolled, and data from CVA status, CPPopt, and periods when CPP was below, within, or above CPPopt were computed daily. Outcome was assessed at 6 months with the Glasgow Outcome Scale. Mann-Whitney U test was used to analyze differences in the duration of impaired CVA and duration of CPP below CPPopt in patients with good and poor outcomes. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to identify independent predictors of outcome. CVA monitoring data were available for all 29 patients with a total monitoring time of 2757 h. The duration of impaired CVA was 36.5% (interquartile range: 24.6 to 49.8) of the total monitoring time in 15 patients with good outcome and 71.6% of the total monitoring time (51.2 to 80.0) in 14 patients with poor outcome (Mann-Whitney U test 3.295, P=0.0010). PRx-based CPPopt could be identified in 26 patients (89.6%) with a total monitoring time of 2691 h. The duration of CPP below the CPPopt range was 28.0% (interquartile range: 18.0 to 47.0) of the total monitoring time in patients with good outcome and 76.0% (48.5 to 82.5) in patients with poor outcome (Mann-Whitney U test 2.779, P=0.0054). Glasgow Coma Scale score and duration of impaired CVA were independently associated with 6-month outcome (Glasgow Coma Scale score odds ratio: 1.95, 95% confidence interval: 1.01-3.75; duration of impaired CVA odds ratio: 0.88, 95% confidence interval: 0.78-0.99). The assessment of CVA and CPPopt is feasible in aSAH patients and may provide important information regarding long-term outcome. A PRx above the 0.2 threshold and a CPP below the CPPopt range are associated with worse outcome.Keywords
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