Identification of the Critical Oxygen Delivery for Anaerobic Metabolism in Critically III Septic and Nonseptic Humans
- 13 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Jama-Journal Of The American Medical Association
- Vol. 270 (14), 1724-1730
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1993.03510140084034
Abstract
Objectives. —To determine the critical oxygen delivery threshold for anaerobic metabolism and to compare its value between septic and nonseptic critically ill patients. Design. —Cohort analytic study, consecutive sample. Setting. —Two tertiary care medical and surgical intensive care units in university hospitals. Patients. —Nine septic and nine nonseptic critically ill humans. A diagnosis of sepsis was established by the presence of sepsis syndrome, positive cultures obtained within 48 hours of study, and autopsy evidence of a source of infection. Methods and Interventions. —The O2consumption (determined by indirect calorimetry), O2delivery (calculated from the Fick equation), and concentration of arterial plasma lactate were simultaneously determined at 5-to 20-minute intervals while life support was discontinued. Main Outcome Measures. —Critical O2delivery, critical O2extraction ratio, and maximal O2extraction ratio. Results. —In all septic and eight nonseptic patients, O2delivery and O2consumption displayed a biphasic relationship over the range of O2delivery studied. There were no differences in critical O2delivery threshold (3.8±1.5 vs 4.5±1.3 mL·min-1·kg-1;P>.28), critical O2extraction ratio (0.61 ±0.05 vs 0.59±0.16;P>.64), and maximal O2extraction ratio (0.74±0.08 vs 0.80±0.11;P>.29) between septic and nonseptic patients. These data have greater than 90% power to detect a difference of 2 mL·min-1·kg-1in the critical O2delivery and 0.1 in the critical and maximal O2extraction ratios between the septic and nonseptic groups. Conclusions. —The critical O2delivery for anaerobic metabolism was identified from the biphasic relationship between O2delivery and O2consumption in individual humans. The critical O2delivery is considerably lower than previously reported in humans with the use of pooled group data. Sepsis does not alter the critical O2delivery for anaerobic metabolism or tissue O2extraction ability. Interventions to increase O2delivery to supranormal levels in critically ill humans in the hope of increasing O2consumption may be inappropriate. (JAMA. 1993;270:1724-1730)This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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