Conservative or liberal oxygen targets in patients on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

ECMO Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Hyperoxaemia Hyperoxia Oxygen target

Journal

Intensive care medicine
ISSN: 1432-1238
Titre abrégé: Intensive Care Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7704851

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
20 Aug 2024
Historique:
received: 12 03 2024
accepted: 17 07 2024
medline: 20 8 2024
pubmed: 20 8 2024
entrez: 20 8 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Patients receiving venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) frequently develop arterial hyperoxaemia, which may be harmful. However, lower oxygen saturation targets may also lead to harmful episodes of hypoxaemia. In this registry-embedded, multicentre trial, we randomly assigned adult patients receiving VA-ECMO in an intensive care unit (ICU) to either a conservative (target SaO From September 2019 through June 2023, 934 patients who received VA-ECMO were reported to the EXCEL registry, of whom 300 (192 cardiogenic shock, 108 refractory cardiac arrest) were recruited. We randomised 149 to a conservative and 151 to a liberal oxygen strategy. The median number of ICU-free days to day 28 was similar in both groups (conservative: 0 days [interquartile range (IQR) 0-13.7] versus liberal: 0 days [IQR 0-13.7], median treatment effect: 0 days [95% confidence interval (CI) - 3.1 to 3.1]). Mortality at day 28 (59/159 [39.6%] vs 59/151 [39.1%]) and at day 60 (64/149 [43%] vs 62/151 [41.1%] were similar in conservative and liberal groups, as were all other secondary outcomes and adverse events. The conservative group experienced 44 (29.5%) major protocol deviations compared to 2 (1.3%) in the liberal oxygen group (P < 0.001). In adults receiving VA-ECMO in ICU, a conservative compared to a liberal oxygen strategy, did not affect the number of ICU-free days to day 28.

Identifiants

pubmed: 39162827
doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07564-8
pii: 10.1007/s00134-024-07564-8
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Subventions

Organisme : MRFF, Australia
ID : APP1152270

Investigateurs

Carol L Hodgson (CL)
Richard J Totaro (RJ)
Michael Bailey (M)
Amanda Corley (A)
John Fraser (J)
Alisa Higgins (A)
Andrew Hilton (A)
Carol Hodgson (C)
Sze Ng (S)
Richard Totaro (R)
Meredith Young (M)
Jasmin Board (J)
Annalie Jones (A)
Phoebe McCracken (P)
Alastair Brown (A)
Helen Young (H)
Leah Peck (L)
Andrew Hilton (A)
John Dyett (J)
Stephanie Hunter (S)
Cheelim Liew (C)
Kym Gellie (K)
Nicole Robertson (N)
Anne-Marie Palermo (AM)
Chris Allen (C)
Ubbo Wiersema (U)
Joanne McIntyre (J)
Shailesh Bihari (S)
Joe McCaffrey (J)
Matthew Maiden (M)
Nima Kakho (N)
Allison Bone (A)
Tania Salerno (T)
Michelle Horton (M)
Jemma Trickey (J)
Samantha Breguet (S)
Lucy Range (L)
Meg Gallagher (M)
James Winearls (J)
Mandy Tallott (M)
Maimoonbe Gough (M)
Julie Pitman (J)
James McCullough (J)
Maree Houbert (M)
Lewis McLean (L)
Amber-Louise Poulter (AL)
Sarah Dalton (S)
Jorge Brieva (J)
Lucas Webb (L)
Daniel de Wit (D)
James Walsham (J)
Jason Meyer (J)
Meg Harward (M)
Anand Krishnan (A)
Cassie Jones (C)
Josephine Mackay (J)
Benjamin Reddi (B)
Stephanie O'Connor (S)
Kathleen Glasby (K)
Nerissa Brown (N)
Sarah Doherty (S)
Justine Rivett (J)
Fiona McDonald (F)
Sophie Dohnt (S)
Mahni Foster (M)
Richard Totaro (R)
Heidi Buhr (H)
Jennifer Coles (J)
Ruaidhri Carey (R)
Sally Newman (S)
Claire Reynolds (C)
John Fraser (J)
Andrew Thomas (A)
Rachel Bushell (R)
Dawn Lockwood (D)
Oystein Tronstad (O)
Jiville Latu (J)
India Pearse (I)
Niall D Ferguson (ND)
Lehana Thabane (L)
Matthieu Schmidt (M)

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Aidan Burrell (A)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Michael J Bailey (MJ)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Rinaldo Bellomo (R)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Data Analytics Research and Evaluation (DARE) Centre, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Hergen Buscher (H)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.

Glenn Eastwood (G)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia.

Paul Forrest (P)

Intensive Care Service, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

John F Fraser (JF)

Institute of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia.
Critical Care Research Group, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, QLD, Australia.

Bentley Fulcher (B)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

David Gattas (D)

Intensive Care Service, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Alisa M Higgins (AM)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, NSW, Australia.

Carol L Hodgson (CL)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Edward Litton (E)

Intensive Care Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcomes and Resources Evaluation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Emma-Leah Martin (EL)

Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Priya Nair (P)

The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, NSW, Australia.
Intensive Care Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Sze J Ng (SJ)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Neil Orford (N)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Geelong, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
School of Medicine, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, VIC, Australia.

Kelly Ottosen (K)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Eldho Paul (E)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Vincent Pellegrino (V)

Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Liadain Reid (L)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Kiran Shekar (K)

Institute of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia.
Adult Intensive Care Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, QLD, Australia.

Richard J Totaro (RJ)

Intensive Care Service, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tony Trapani (T)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.

Andrew Udy (A)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Marc Ziegenfuss (M)

Critical Care Research Group, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, QLD, Australia.
Adult Intensive Care Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, QLD, Australia.

David Pilcher (D)

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia. david.pilcher@monash.edu.
Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. david.pilcher@monash.edu.
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcomes and Resources Evaluation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. david.pilcher@monash.edu.

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