Use of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide to detect acute cardiac dysfunction during weaning failure in difficult-to-wean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease*
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 35 (1), 96-105
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccm.0000250391.89780.64
Abstract
To evaluate the utility of serial measurements of plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) to detect acute cardiac dysfunction during weaning failure in difficult to wean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Prospective observational cohort study. A 14-bed general intensive care unit in a university hospital. Nineteen patients mechanically ventilated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation who were difficult to wean. None. Cardiac and hemodynamic variables, arterial and central venous blood gas, breathing pattern, respiratory mechanics, indexes of oxygen cost of breathing, and plasma levels of NT-proBNP were measured and analyzed immediately before (baseline) and at the end of a spontaneous breathing trial. Eight of 19 patients (42%) were identified with acute cardiac dysfunction at the end of the weaning trial. Baseline NT-proBNP levels were significantly higher (median 5000, interquartile range 4218 pg/mL) in these patients than in patients without evidence of acute cardiac dysfunction (median 1705, interquartile range 3491 pg/mL). Plasma levels of NT-proBNP increased significantly at the end of the spontaneous breathing trial only in patients with acute cardiac dysfunction (median 12,733, interquartile range 16,456 pg/mL, p Conclusions: Serial measurements of NT-proBNP plasma levels provided a noninvasive manner to detect acute cardiac dysfunction during an unsuccessful weaning trial in difficult to wean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The utility of this test as a complement of the standard clinical monitoring of the weaning trial deserves further investigation.Keywords
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