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Goal-directed haemodynamic therapy during elective total hip arthroplasty under regional anaesthesia.

Cecconi, M; Fasano, N; Langiano, N; Divella, M; Costa, MG; Rhodes, A; Della Rocca, G (2011) Goal-directed haemodynamic therapy during elective total hip arthroplasty under regional anaesthesia. Critical Care, 15 (3). R132. ISSN 1466-609X https://doi.org/10.1186/cc10246
SGUL Authors: Cecconi, Maurizio Rhodes, Andrew

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INTRODUCTION: Total hip replacement is one of the most commonly performed major orthopaedic operations. Goal-directed therapy (GDT) using haemodynamic monitoring has previously demonstrated outcome benefits in high-risk surgical patients under general anaesthesia. GDT has never been formally assessed during regional anaesthesia. METHODS: Patients undergoing total hip replacement while under regional anaesthesia were randomised to either the control group (CTRL) or the protocol group (GDT). Patients in the GDT group, in addition to standard monitoring, were connected to the FloTrac sensor/Vigileo monitor haemodynamic monitoring system, and a GDT protocol was used to maximise the stroke volume and target the oxygen delivery index to > 600 mL/minute/m2. RESULTS: Patients randomised to the GDT group were given a greater volume of intravenous fluids during the intraoperative period (means ± standard deviation (SD): 6,032 ± 1,388 mL vs. 2,635 ± 346 mL; P < 0.0001), and more of the GDT patients received dobutamine (0 of 20 CTRL patients vs. 11 of 20 GDT patients; P < 0.0003). The GDT patients also received more blood transfused during the intraoperative period (means ± SD: 595 ± 316 mL vs. 0 ± 0 mL; P < 0.0001), although the CTRL group received greater volumes of blood replacement postoperatively (CTRL patients 658 ± 68 mL vs. GDT patients 198 ± 292 mL; P < 0.001). Overall blood consumption (intraoperatively and postoperatively) was not different between the two groups. There were an increased number of complications in the CTRL group (20 of 20 CTRL patients (100%) vs. 16 of 20 GDT patients (80%); P = 0.05). These outcomes were predominantly due to a difference in minor complications (20 of 20 CTRL patients (100%) vs. 15 of 20 GDT patients (75%); P = 0.047). CONCLUSIONS: GDT applied during regional anaesthesia in patients undergoing elective total hip replacement changes intraoperative fluid management and may improve patient outcomes by decreasing postoperative complications. Larger trials are required to confirm our findings.

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Additional Information: © 2011 Cecconi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Aged, Anesthesia, Conduction, Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip, Feasibility Studies, Female, Fluid Therapy, Hemodynamics, Humans, Intraoperative Care, Male, Middle Aged, Monitoring, Physiologic, Postoperative Complications, Surgical Procedures, Elective, Treatment Outcome, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Critical Care Medicine, General & Internal Medicine, CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL, CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS, RISK SURGICAL-PATIENTS, POSTOPERATIVE MORBIDITY SURVEY, PROXIMAL FEMORAL FRACTURE, MAJOR SURGERY, HOSPITAL STAY, FLUID MANAGEMENT, OXYGEN DELIVERY, CLINICAL-TRIAL, 11 Medical And Health Sciences
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Institute of Medical & Biomedical Education (IMBE)
Academic Structure > Institute of Medical & Biomedical Education (IMBE) > Centre for Clinical Education (INMECE )
Journal or Publication Title: Critical Care
ISSN: 1466-609X
Language: eng
Dates:
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May 2011Published
PubMed ID: 21624138
Web of Science ID: WOS:000295799700014
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/107217
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc10246

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