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Rapid bedside determination of cerebral blood pressure autoregulation (AR) may improve clinical utility. We tested the hypothesis that cerebral Hb oxygenation (Hb Diff) and cerebral Hb volume (Hb Total) measured by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) would correlate with cerebral blood flow (CBF) after single dose phenylephrine (PE). Critically ill patients requiring artificial ventilation and arterial lines were eligible. During rapid blood pressure rise induced by i.v. PE bolus, ΔHb Diff and ΔHb Total were calculated by subtracting values at baseline (normotension) from values at peak blood pressure elevation (hypertension). With the aid of NIRS and bolus injection of indocyanine green, relative measures of CBF, called blood flow index (BFI), were determined during normotension and during hypertension. BFI during hypertension was expressed as percentage from BFI during normotension (BFI%).
Autoregulation indices (ARIs) were calculated by dividing BFI%, ΔHb Diff, and ΔHb Total by the concomitant change in blood pressure. In 24 patients (11 newborns and 13 children), significant correlations between BFI% and ΔHb Diff (or ΔHb Total) were found.
In addition, the associations between Hb-based ARI and BFI%-based ARI were significant with correlation coefficients of 0.73 (or 0.72). Rapid determination of dynamic AR with the aid of cerebral Hb signals and PE bolus seems to be reliable. Intact cerebral blood pressure autoregulation (AR) describes the intrinsic ability of the brain to maintain cerebral blood flow (CBF) during changes in cerebral perfusion pressure.
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Diverse factors, such as age of patient, illness, injury, or vasoactive drugs, have been found to impair this ability—often to an unpredictable extent. Patients with impaired or even absent AR are at increased risk for inadequate CBF and consequently for cerebral ischemia. Measuring AR may provide clinically useful information and permit more individualized critical care. Several recent studies have demonstrated the potential of so-called dynamic AR to predict outcome in adult or pediatric TBI and in premature infants. In addition, monitoring of dynamic AR may allow determination of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure and determination of treatment efficacy in controlling intracranial pressure (ICP) after head injury. Finally, AR-guided treatment of cerebral perfusion pressure in patients suffering severe head trauma carries the potential to improve outcome and has therefore been recommended in the new adult guidelines. Nevertheless, further work is needed to delineate the clinical utility of AR determination in critical illness, especially for the child and newborn.Determination of the classic, steady state (or static) AR in intensive care medicine remains cumbersome and time consuming.
In contrast, determination of the short-latency cerebrovascular response (or dynamic AR) to rapid perfusion pressure changes has been shown to be easily performed at the bedside and allows for repetitive measures. Several studies have shown that the findings of dynamic AR are associated with the results of static AR (,). Dynamic AR may be defined as an acute change in vascular resistance or arteriolar caliber due to acute perfusion pressure changes. This leads to acute changes in CBF, cerebral blood volume (CBV), and ICP. In a previous study, we have demonstrated that after a single dose of phenylephrine (PE) to increase mean arterial blood pressure (MABP), the near-infrared spectroscopy(NIRS)-derived Hb signals correlated well with ICP as a surrogate for CBV. NIRS-measured Hb signals after rapid increase in MABP may not only correlate with ICP but also with CBF. Therefore, aim of the study was to investigate whether noninvasive NIRS-measured Hb signals may correlate with CBF measures and may allow reliable determination of dynamic AR after i.v.
Dynamic AR by cerebral Hb signal.AR was assessed by i.v. Bolus of PE through a central venous catheter to rapidly and transiently elevate blood pressure at least by 10% and maximally by 25% while continuously displaying (and simultaneously storing on a personal computer) Hb Diff, Hb Total, MABP, StO 2, and EtCO 2. The PE dose needed to reach the target blood pressure elevation was carefully determined in each patient by stepwise dose increase, starting from 0.5 μg/kg. Subsequent data analysis was performed using custom software program (Labview 5.0; National Instruments, Austin, TX). Two time series were defined by the arterial blood pressure behavior as previously described.
The first time series included a baseline of 60 s (normotension) ending with the start of blood pressure rise. This relatively long baseline period was chosen to minimize the effect of the physiological slow wave motion of cerebral vessels. The blood pressure increase from start to peak elevation lasted 15 s on average. The second time series (hypertension) started at the highest blood pressure elevation and lasted 5 s. This short time interval was chosen because of the short-lived peak blood pressure elevation after central PE bolus in pediatric patients. Each 60 s interval of MABP, StO 2, EtCO 2, Hb Diff, and Hb Total at baseline was averaged and used as normotension value. At the highest blood pressure elevation, the 5-s interval of the signals was averaged and used as hypertension value.
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Each signal change was then calculated by subtracting normotension value from hypertension value ( e.g. ΔHb Diff = averaged Hb Diff at hypertension − averaged Hb Diff at normotension). Finally, an cerebral autoregulation index (ARI) was calculated by dividing the changes in Hb Diff or Hb Total by the concomitant change in MABP and expressed as either ARI HbDiff or ARI HbTotal. Such ARI is the amount of relative CBF change per millimeters of mercury MABP change. A negative ARI value means a CBF decrease at MABP peak elevation and reflects an active cerebrovascular reactivity and intact AR. A positive ARI value means an CBF increase at MABP peak elevation and therefore a diminished cerebrovascular reactivity and impaired AR. Dynamic AR by blood flow index.ICG absorbs near-infrared light with an absorption peak around 805 nm and is strongly protein bound in blood.
This enables monitoring of the passage of an injected ICG bolus through the cerebral vasculature by NIRS. Moreover, its rapid clearance from blood by hepatic uptake and biliary excretion combined with documented nontoxicity makes ICG a suitable tracer for repetitive measurements at short intervals and good reproducibility. The blood flow index (BFI) method is a tissue blood flow determination developed by Perbeck et al. from fluorescein flowmetry in the intestine. BFI was calculated from dye kinetics of each bolus ICG injection according to the algorithm BFI = maximum change in ICG absorption (ΔICG max indicated in OD) divided by rise time.
The rise time was defined by the time in seconds between 10% of ΔICG max and 90% of ΔICG max. ΔICG max was calculated from a baseline value (mean of 15 s baseline before rise) subtracted from peak value. Three BFI were taken during normotension, 5 min apart from each other, and averaged as BFI normotension.
Then, three BFI were measured during hypertension following three PE boluses, 5 min apart, and averaged as BFI hypertension, and expressed as percentage of BFI normotension (BFI%). We chose to express BFI changes as BFI%, because BFI is as relative measure of CBF, where all constants are excluded from calculation. That means that BFI is proportional to CBF with an unknown factor of proportionality to absolute CBF numbers.
In addition, the autoregulation index ARI BFI% was calculated by subtracting 100 from BFI% and then dividing by the concomitant change in MABP. Negative ARI BFI% values stand for intact AR and positive values for impaired AR. For BFI measurements, the central venous line was first loaded with 0.1 mg/kg body weight of ICG (Pulsion, Germany) at a concentration of 2.5 or 5 mg/mL to keep the amount of dye smaller than the dead space of the catheter and then flushed with 1 to 5 mL isotonic saline depending on the size of central venous catheter.
Both ICG and flush fluids were at 37°C. For one dynamic AR by BFI (AR BFI) determination, the same central venous line, the same amount, and dilution of tracer and flush were used. The patient parameters MABP, StO 2, and EtCO 2 were averaged for 5 s during each BFI measurement; then the mean at normotension or hypertension conditions were calculated. As ICG may interfere with the interpretation of Hb signal because of its much higher OD changes, dynamic AR by cerebral Hb signal (AR Hb) was measured first, immediately followed by AR BFI. NIRS optodes were left in place, and patient physiological parameters were kept as similar as possible during both AR determinations. Statistics.As ΔHb Diff (Shapiro Wilk test statistic = 0.904; p = 0.025) and part of the physiological patient parameters were nonnormally distributed, and because of the small number of patients studied, nonparametric exact tests were used whenever possible, and medians together with interquartile ranges (IQR) were calculated as summary measures (StatXact 6.0; Cytel Software Corp., Cambridge, MA).
Calculation of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient with its 95% CI was used to assess associations between the changes in Hb signals (ΔHb Diff and ΔHb Total) and changes in BFI (BFI%). Calculation of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was also used to assess associations between ARI HbDiff (or ARI HbTotal) and ARI BFI%.Wilcoxon's signed-rank test was used to assess whether there were differences in the physiological parameters between AR Hb and AR BFI, such as differences in baseline values of MABP, StO 2, or EtCO 2, and differences in chances of MABP, StO 2, or EtCO 2. In addition, calculation of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to assess associations between these potentially confounding differences in physiological parameters and the ARIs. Two-sided tests were used throughout, and p. Twenty-seven children had AR Hb and AR BFI measured.
Three of them were not included in the analysis because of unstable blood pressure after chlorpromazine, abnormal tracer kinetics secondary to residual shunting, and prolonged ICG elimination time secondary to ischemic hepatopathy in each. We thus report on the results of 24 children , 15 boys and 9 girls. Eleven were neonates with GAs 36 wk, whereas 13 were older (2 mo to 15 y). Their main diagnoses were either cranial pathologies six perinatal asphyxia, four severe head trauma (one death), one stroke, and one meningitis or noncranial pathologies (five surgery of congenital heart disease, three sepsis, two repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, one hyaline membrane disease, and one bronchiolitis). All patients had three BFI determinations at normotension and three BFI at hypertension, except for three patients who had only two BFI determination because of time restrains. The physiological parameters EtCO 2 and StO 2 remained stable throughout the experiments. Their median changes from baseline to hypertension, and the differences between the two AR determinations were.