Abstract
Objective
To determine whether gas exchange response to a first prone position session can predict patient outcome in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure.
Methods
Data from a previous multicenter randomized controlled trial were retrospectively analyzed for relationship between PaO2/FIO2 ratio and PaCO2 changes during the first 8-h prone position session to day 28 mortality rate; 370 prone position sessions were analyzed. Arterial blood gas was measured in supine position before proning and in prone position at the end of the session. Gas exchange improvement was defined as increase in the PaO2/FIO2 ratio of more than 20% (PaO2R) or decrease in PaCO2 of more than 1 mmHg (PaCO2R).
Main results
The 28-day mortality rate was 26.5% in PaO2R–PaCO2R, 31.7% in PaO2R–PaCO2NR, 38.9% in PaO2NR–PaCO2R, and 43% in PaO2NR–PaCO2NR (log-rank 14.02, p = 0.003). In a Cox proportional hazards model the gas exchange response was a significant predictor to patient outcome with a 82.5% increase in risk of death in the case of PaO2NR–PaCO2R or PaO2NR–PaCO2NR, relative to the gas exchange improvement response (odds ratio 1.825). However, after adjusting for the difference in oxygenation between day 2 and day 1 the gas exchange response does no longer reach significance.
Conclusion
In patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure initial improvement in gas exchange in the first PP session was associated with a better outcome, but this association disappeared when the change in oxygenation from day 1 to day 2 was taken into account, suggesting that underlying illness was the most important predictor of mortality in this patient population.
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This work was supported by Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, and Ministère de la Santé, Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique, Paris, France
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Lemasson, S., Ayzac, L., Girard, R. et al. Does gas exchange response to prone position predict mortality in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure?. Intensive Care Med 32, 1987–1993 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0390-4
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