Moore, JPR;
Anstey, C;
Murray, L;
Fraser, JF;
Singer, M;
(2018)
Allostasis and sedation practices in intensive care evaluation: an observational pilot study.
Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
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, Article 13. 10.1186/s40635-018-0179-0.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: A dysregulated stress response has been implicated in the pathogenesis of critical illness. Sedative agents utilised in the critically unwell patient may impact upon the stress response with a downstream negative effect on multiple organ systems. This study was designed to assess the feasibility of investigating components of the stress response as a sub-study of the current SPICE-III study (NCT01728558). METHODS: This pilot observational cohort study was conducted in a single intensive care unit in Queensland, Australia. Enrolled patients were over 18 years who had been commenced on mechanical ventilation requiring sedation for less than 12 h but expected to remain ventilated for > 24 h. Blood samples were taken at 12 h intervals over a 5-day period commencing at the time of enrolment, and subsequently tested for various markers of key efferent limbs of the stress axis. RESULTS: The 12 patients recruited closely mirrored the population within the pilot study used to design SPICE-III. Eighty-nine percent (107/120) of all planned blood samples were obtained and drawn within 0 h (0-0.3) of the planned sampling time point. Time from eligibility to enrolment was a median (IQR) 1.4 h (0.36-9.19), and time from eligibility to the first blood sample was 4.79 h (2.0-10.61). Physiological, hormonal, metabolic and cardiac biomarkers were consistent with an elevated stress response at baseline which mostly normalised over the 5-day study period. Plasma noradrenaline levels correlated with the dose of norepinephrine used. CONCLUSIONS: A larger sub-study of the SPICE-III study is feasible. The study has demonstrated a predictable trend of variation of the components of the blood panel during the evolution of critical illness and supports multiple sampling time points for the follow-up study. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ANZCTR.org.au , ACTRN12616001200471, Registered on 22 January 2016.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Allostasis and sedation practices in intensive care evaluation: an observational pilot study |
| Location: | Germany |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40635-018-0179-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40635-018-0179-0 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Allostasis, Critical illness, Multiple organ failure, Sedatives |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Experimental and Translational Medicine |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10055199 |
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