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Applicability of respiratory variations in stroke volume and its surrogates for dynamic fluid responsiveness prediction in critically ill patients: a systematic review of the prevalence of required conditions

ABSTRACT

Objective:

The present systematic review searched for published data on the prevalence of required conditions for proper assessment in critically ill patients.

Methods:

The Medline, Scopus and Web of Science databases were searched to identify studies that evaluated the prevalence of validated conditions for the fluid responsiveness assessment using respiratory variations in the stroke volume or another surrogate in adult critically ill patients. The primary outcome was the suitability of the fluid responsiveness evaluation. The secondary objectives were the type and prevalence of pre-requisites evaluated to define the suitability.

Results:

Five studies were included (14,804 patients). High clinical and statistical heterogeneity was observed (I2 = 98.6%), which prevented us from pooling the results into a meaningful summary conclusion. The most frequent limitation identified is the absence of invasive mechanical ventilation with a tidal volume ≥ 8mL/kg. The final suitability for the fluid responsiveness assessment was low (in four studies, it varied between 1.9 to 8.3%, in one study, it was 42.4%).

Conclusion:

Applicability of the dynamic indices of preload responsiveness requiring heart-lung interactions might be limited in daily practice.

Keywords:
Critical care; Monitoring, physiologic; Hemodynamics; Fluid therapy

RESUMO

Objetivo:

Avaliar os dados publicados em relação à prevalência das condições requeridas para avaliação apropriada em pacientes críticos.

Métodos:

Foram realizadas buscas nas bases de dados MEDLINE, Scopus e Web of Science para identificar estudos que discutiam a prevalência de condições validadas para avaliação da responsividade a fluidos com uso de variações respiratórias do volume sistólico ou algum outro substituto em pacientes críticos adultos. O desfecho primário foi a prevalência de adequação para avaliação da responsividade. O objetivo secundário foi o tipo e a prevalência de pré-requisitos avaliados para definir a adequação.

Resultados:

Incluíram-se cinco estudos (14.804 pacientes). Observaram-se elevadas heterogeneidades do ponto de vista clínico e estatístico (I2 = 98,6%), o que impediu o agrupamento dos resultados em uma conclusão sumarizada significativa. A limitação mais frequentemente identificada foi a ausência de ventilação mecânica invasiva com volume corrente ≥ 8mL/kg. A adequação final para avaliação da responsividade a fluidos foi baixa (em quatro estudos, variou entre 1,9 e 8,3% e, em um estudo, foi de 42,4%).

Conclusão:

A aplicabilidade na prática diária de índices dinâmicos de responsividade da pré-carga que demandam interações cardiopulmonares pode ser limitada.

Descritores:
Cuidados críticos; Monitorização fisiológica; Hemodinâmica; Hidratação

INTRODUCTION

Fluid resuscitation is one of the most important interventions in patients with acute circulatory failure. Volume expansion is expected to be of hemodynamic benefit if the increase in the cardiac preload is accompanied by an increase in the stroke volume to a similar extent (preload responsiveness).(11 Monnet X, Teboul JL. Assessment of volume responsiveness during mechanical ventilation: recent advances. Crit Care. 2013;17(2):217.,22 Vincent JL, De Backer D. Circulatory shock. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(18):1726-34.) This improvement in the cardiac output is expected to ameliorate perfusion deficits if administered in a timely manner.(33 Ospina-Tascon G, Neves AP, Occhipinti G, Donadello K, Büchele G, Simion D, et al. Effects of fluids on microvascular perfusion in patients with severe sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36(6):949-55.) However, positive fluid balance is increasingly associated with morbidity and mortality in critical illness.(44 Bouchard J, Soroko SB, Chertow GM, Himmelfarb J, Ikizler TA, Paganini EP, Mehta RL; Program to Improve Care in Acute Renal Disease (PICARD) Study Group. Fluid accumulation, survival and recovery of kidney function in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. Kidney Int. 2009;76(4):422-7.

5 Azevedo LC, Park M, Salluh JI, Rea-Neto A, Souza-Dantas VC, Varaschin P, Oliveira MC, Tierno PF, dal-Pizzol F, Silva UV, Knibel M, Nassar AP Jr, Alves RA, Ferreira JC, Teixeira C, Rezende V, Martinez A, Luciano PM, Schettino G, Soares M; ERICC (Epidemiology of Respiratory Insufficiency in Critical Care) investigators. Clinical outcomes of patients requiring ventilatory support in Brazilian intensive care units: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study. Crit Care. 2013;17(2):R63.
-66 Besen BA, Gobatto AL, Melro LM, Maciel AT, Park M. Fluid and electrolyte overload in critically ill patients: An overview. World J Crit Care Med. 2015;4(2):116-29.) Therefore, fluid administration should be titrated by accurate parameters, such as dynamic indices of fluid responsiveness (e.g., stroke volume variation).(77 Mohsenin V. Assessment of preload and fluid responsiveness in intensive care unit. How good are we? J Crit Care. 2015;30(3):567-73.,88 Renner J, Scholz J, Bein B. Monitoring fluid therapy. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2009;23(2):159-71.)

One major constraint of most of these dynamic parameters is the requirement for invasive mechanical ventilation with the controlled mode and adequate tidal volume (Vt).(99 De Backer D, Heenen S, Piagnerelli M, Koch M, Vincent J. Pulse pressure variations to predict fluid responsiveness: influence of tidal volume. Intensive Care Med. 2005;31(4):517-23.) Other requirements are sinus rhythm, the presence of an arterial line and appropriate monitoring devices.(88 Renner J, Scholz J, Bein B. Monitoring fluid therapy. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2009;23(2):159-71.) These limitations could undermine the bedside applicability of these parameters. In fact, some studies suggest that this might be the case.(1010 Mahjoub Y, Lejeune V, Muller L, Perbet S, Zieleskiewicz L, Bart F, et al. Evaluation of pulse pressure variation validity criteria in critically ill patients: a prospective observational multicentre point-prevalence study. Br J Anaesth. 2014;112(4):681-5.,1111 Mendes PV, Rodrigues BN, Miranda LC, Zampieri FG, Queiroz EL, Schettino G, et al. Prevalence of ventilatory conditions for dynamic fluid responsiveness prediction in 2 tertiary intensive care units. J Intensive Care Med. 2016;31(4):258-62.) The objective of this systematic review was to estimate the prevalence of required conditions for proper use of the stroke volume variation (SVV) or other similar surrogates (e.g., pulse pressure variation [PPV]) of fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients.

METHODS

Literature search

Studies were identified through a standardized search of Medline (via PubMed), Scopus and Web of Science databases. A sensitive search strategy was used, which combined the following keywords: "fluid responsiveness" or "preload responsiveness" or "volume responsiveness" and "prevalence" or "incidence" or "applicability" or "suitability". The references in the included studies and personal files were also searched. The search strategy was restricted to studies that aimed to assess the fluid responsiveness in adult subjects and published prior to December 1, 2015. There was no language restriction. The titles and abstracts were assessed for eligibility, and full-text copies of all articles deemed potentially relevant were retrieved. A standardized eligibility assessment was independently performed by two reviewers. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. The PRISMA statement was used for guidance,(1212 Liberati A, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Mulrow C, Gøtzsche PC, Ioannidis JP, et al. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration. BMJ. 2009;339:b2700.) and the systematic review was registered in the PROSPERO database (CRD42016032769).

Study selection

Studies that fulfilled the following criteria were included: aimed to assess the prevalence of validated conditions for fluid responsiveness assessment using the SVV or another surrogate in a population of critical care or surgical adult patients; described the proportion of patients with the following fundamental conditions to assess the fluid responsiveness: invasive mechanical ventilation, absence of breathing efforts, sinus rhythm, "adequate Vt" (as defined by each study) and threshold used to define its adequacy.

Data extraction

A data extraction sheet was developed. Two authors independently extracted the following data from the included studies: year of publication, country, study type (cross-sectional or cohort) and total number of assessed patients. Out of the total number of patients, the proportion of patients on invasive mechanical ventilation, without breathing efforts and with sinus rhythm was recorded. Additionally, if available, we collected data on the number of patients with an arterial line, vasopressors, cutoff for positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) and for Vt that were considered unsuitable to assess fluid responsiveness (and the number of patients ventilated with lower levels from that cutoff), heart rate to respiratory rate ratio (HR/RR) > 3.6(1313 De Backer D, Taccone FS, Holsten R, Ibrahimi F, Vincent JL. Influence of respiratory rate on stroke volume variation in mechanically ventilated patients. Anesthesiology. 2009;110(5):1092-7.) and total respiratory system compliance (CTRS) > 30mL/cmH2O.(1414 Monnet X, Bleibtreu A, Ferré A, Dres M, Gharbi R, Richard C, et al. Passive leg-raising and end-expiratory occlusion tests perform better than pulse pressure variation in patients with low respiratory system compliance. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(1):152-7.)

The risk of bias in the individual trials was not assessed because we only planned on including prevalence studies and commonly evaluated variables in the quality assessment, such as selection of cases, controls or cohorts, ascertainment of exposures and follow-up of the patients were not assessed in these prevalence studies.

Outcome measurement

The primary outcome was the prevalence of suitability for assessing the fluid responsiveness, defined as the number of patients who were invasively, mechanically ventilated with a Vt higher than the identified threshold, who lacked breathing efforts and had a regular sinus rhythm.

A formal meta-analysis was planned, but it was not performed because of the heterogeneity among the studies (I2 = 98.6%).(1515 Ryan R; Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. Heterogeneity and subgroup analyses in Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group reviews: planning the analysis at protocol stage [Internet]. 2014 [Available at: http://cccrg.cochrane.org/sites/cccrg.cochrane.org/files/uploads/Heterogeneity%26subgroup_analyses.pdf].
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RESULTS

Of 84 publications retrieved through electronic database searches, five studies were included (Figure 1).(1010 Mahjoub Y, Lejeune V, Muller L, Perbet S, Zieleskiewicz L, Bart F, et al. Evaluation of pulse pressure variation validity criteria in critically ill patients: a prospective observational multicentre point-prevalence study. Br J Anaesth. 2014;112(4):681-5.,1111 Mendes PV, Rodrigues BN, Miranda LC, Zampieri FG, Queiroz EL, Schettino G, et al. Prevalence of ventilatory conditions for dynamic fluid responsiveness prediction in 2 tertiary intensive care units. J Intensive Care Med. 2016;31(4):258-62.,1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.

17 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.
-1818 Fischer MO, Mahjoub Y, Boisselier C, Tavernier B, Dupont H, Leone M, Lefrant JY, Gérard JL, Hanouz JL, Fellahi JL; Atlanrea groups. Arterial pulse pressure variation suitability in critical care: A French national survey. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2015;34(1):23-8.) There were one prospective,(1111 Mendes PV, Rodrigues BN, Miranda LC, Zampieri FG, Queiroz EL, Schettino G, et al. Prevalence of ventilatory conditions for dynamic fluid responsiveness prediction in 2 tertiary intensive care units. J Intensive Care Med. 2016;31(4):258-62.) two retrospective(1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.,1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) and two one one-day point prevalence studies.(1010 Mahjoub Y, Lejeune V, Muller L, Perbet S, Zieleskiewicz L, Bart F, et al. Evaluation of pulse pressure variation validity criteria in critically ill patients: a prospective observational multicentre point-prevalence study. Br J Anaesth. 2014;112(4):681-5.,1818 Fischer MO, Mahjoub Y, Boisselier C, Tavernier B, Dupont H, Leone M, Lefrant JY, Gérard JL, Hanouz JL, Fellahi JL; Atlanrea groups. Arterial pulse pressure variation suitability in critical care: A French national survey. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2015;34(1):23-8.) One study was performed in a surgical room(1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.) and the remaining were all performed in intensive care units (ICU). The study by Benes et al. selected a population in which required conditions for preload responsiveness were only assessed in patients with the following conditions: sepsis, trauma, postoperative and post-cardiac arrest.(1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) Three studies included patients from more than one center (Table 1).

Figure 1
Study flowchart.

Table 1
Characteristics of the included studies

The characteristics of the assessed patients in included studies are given in table 2. A total of 14,804 patients were evaluated. Overall, except for one study, more than half of patients were mechanically ventilated. However, only one study reported that the majority of patients lacked a breathing effort. We also observed that the use of arterial lines varied among the studies (15.7 to 81%) as did the administration of vasopressors. Their use varied from only 192 of 4,792 patients (4%), which had the required conditions for assessing fluid responsiveness in the study by Maguire et al.(1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.) to 59% of critically ill patients in the study by Benes et al.(1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) All other studies of critical care patients had a lower use of vasopressors (13.5 to 28.5%).

Table 2
Prevalence of conditions affecting the assessment of fluid responsiveness in the included studies

Two studies reported a PEEP value cutoff for assessing the fluid responsiveness. Maguire et al.(1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.) defined it as 5cmH2O, and 56.4% of all mechanically ventilated patients had a PEEP equal to or lower than that. Benes et al.(1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) defined the PEEP cutoff as 10cmH2O, and 52.9% of mechanically ventilated patients had a PEEP level equal to or lower than that. All identified studies used a threshold of 8mL/kg as the cutoff of validity for the SVV or surrogate.

Mahjoub et al.(1010 Mahjoub Y, Lejeune V, Muller L, Perbet S, Zieleskiewicz L, Bart F, et al. Evaluation of pulse pressure variation validity criteria in critically ill patients: a prospective observational multicentre point-prevalence study. Br J Anaesth. 2014;112(4):681-5.) also gathered data on other physiological criteria for assessing the fluid responsiveness and found that 10 (3.2%) patients had an HR/RR > 3.6, and 8 (2.6%) patients had a CTRS > 30mL/cmH2O. Fischer et al.(1818 Fischer MO, Mahjoub Y, Boisselier C, Tavernier B, Dupont H, Leone M, Lefrant JY, Gérard JL, Hanouz JL, Fellahi JL; Atlanrea groups. Arterial pulse pressure variation suitability in critical care: A French national survey. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2015;34(1):23-8.) found that 177 (38.1%) patients an HR/RR > 3.6 and 108 (23.2%) patients had a CTRS > 30mL/cmH2O. Additionally, they considered a tricuspid annular peak systolic velocity > 0.15ms-1 as suitable for the preload responsiveness assessment and only six (2%) patients fulfilled these criteria as well the other required conditions for this assessment (mechanical ventilation, regular rhythm, no spontaneous breathing, Vt > 8mL/kg, HR/RR > 3.6 and CTRS > 30mL/cmH2O).

Overall, the prevalence of the required conditions, i.e., invasive mechanical ventilation, absence of breathing efforts, Vt higher than the identified threshold (8mL/kg of body weight in all studies) and sinus rhythm, was very low in three ICU studies (1.9 to 3.8%). In contrast, two studies found a higher proportion (38.9 and 42.4%) of patients presenting with the required conditions for assessing the fluid responsiveness. One of these studies only included surgical patients(1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.) and the other included a selected population of critical care patients, as mentioned above (Table 2).(1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) Of note, the study by Maguire et al.(1616 Maguire S, Rinehart J, Vakharia S, Cannesson M. Technical communication: respiratory variation in pulse pressure and plethysmographic waveforms: intraoperative applicability in a North American academic center. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):94-6.) assessed the proportion of patients fulfilling criteria for both respiratory variations in the plethysmographic waveform amplitude (38.9% from the total population) and PPV (8.3% from the total population).

DISCUSSION

Since "dynamic" parameters (such as SVV and PPV) have been advocated to have greater accuracy in predicting the fluid responsiveness,(11 Monnet X, Teboul JL. Assessment of volume responsiveness during mechanical ventilation: recent advances. Crit Care. 2013;17(2):217.,1919 Michard F, Teboul JL. Predicting fluid responsiveness in ICU patients: a critical analysis of the evidence. Chest. 2002;121(6):2000-8. Review.,2020 Yang X, Du B. Does pulse pressure variation predict fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care. 2014;18(6):650.) their bedside applicability in the real world context has become a relevant question due to their known constrains. In this systematic review, we could observe the following: (1) there is a paucity of studies about the prevalence of requisites for correct application of respiratory-dependent dynamic parameters; (2) the available literature has a marked heterogeneity; and (3) at most, these parameters could be applied to 42% of the patients in the ICU, which is usually to less than 10%.

After the Michard et al. publication on the utility of PPV in the early 2000s,(2121 Michard F, Boussat S, Chemla D, Anguel N, Mercat A, Lecarpentier Y, et al. Relation between respiratory changes in arterial pulse pressure and fluid responsiveness in septic patients with acute circulatory failure. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000;162(1):134-8.) substantial enthusiasm was observed about dynamic indices to predict fluid responsiveness. However, many limitations for the use of respiratory variations in stroke volume or surrogates have been identified. The most relevant one is the absolute requirement for the absence of spontaneous respiratory efforts (i.e., invasive mechanical ventilation in the controlled mode).(2222 Heenen S, De Backer D, Vincent JL. How can the response to volume expansion in patients with spontaneous respiratory movements be predicted? Crit Care. 2006;10(4):R102.,2323 Soubrier S, Saulnier F, Hubert H, Delour P, Lenci H, Ominus T, et al. Can dynamic indicators help the prediction of fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing critically ill patients? Intensive Care Med. 2007;33(7):1117-24.) We observed high variability in the prevalence of invasive mechanical ventilation (from 25 to 82.8%), which is probably due to the case-mix among studies. Of note, the study from Benes et al., which demonstrated the highest proportion of mechanically ventilated patients, only evaluated a highly selected severe subgroup, as previously discussed.(1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) Even the study by Mendes et al.,(1111 Mendes PV, Rodrigues BN, Miranda LC, Zampieri FG, Queiroz EL, Schettino G, et al. Prevalence of ventilatory conditions for dynamic fluid responsiveness prediction in 2 tertiary intensive care units. J Intensive Care Med. 2016;31(4):258-62.) which had the lowest prevalence of invasive mechanical ventilation (25%), presented values that were similar to a large multicenter cohort study of mechanical ventilation.(2424 Esteban A, Ferguson ND, Meade MO, Frutos-Vivar F, Apezteguia C, Brochard L, Raymondos K, Nin N, Hurtado J, Tomicic V, González M, Elizalde J, Nightingale P, Abroug F, Pelosi P, Arabi Y, Moreno R, Jibaja M, D'Empaire G, Sandi F, Matamis D, Montañez AM, Anzueto A; VENTILA Group. Evolution of mechanical ventilation in response to clinical research. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008;177(2):170-7.) More recently, the LUNG-SAFE study evaluated 459 ICU in 50 different countries and observed 46.5% of critically ill patients underwent invasive mechanical ventilation.(2525 Bellani G, Laffey JG, Pham T, Fan E, Brochard L, Esteban A, Gattinoni L, van Haren F, Larsson A, McAuley DF, Ranieri M, Rubenfeld G, Thompson BT, Wrigge H, Slutsky AS, Pesenti A; LUNG SAFE Investigators; ESICM Trials Group. Epidemiology, patterns of care, and mortality for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome in intensive care units in 50 countries. JAMA. 2016;315(8):788-800.)

In addition to the absence of respiratory efforts, another limitation is the requirement for a certain level of variation in the intrathoracic positive pressure due to the tidal volume (usually a threshold of Vt ≥ 8mL/kg, as observed in our systematic review).(99 De Backer D, Heenen S, Piagnerelli M, Koch M, Vincent J. Pulse pressure variations to predict fluid responsiveness: influence of tidal volume. Intensive Care Med. 2005;31(4):517-23.,2626 Muller L, Louart G, Bousquet PJ, Candela D, Zoric L, de La Coussaye JE, et al. The influence of the airway driving pressure on pulsed pressure variation as a predictor of fluid responsiveness. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36(3):496-503.) We observed that the proportion of critically ill patients with invasive mechanical ventilation and tidal volumes higher than 8mL/kg is low (usually less than 10% in three of the included studies). This might be due to the recent literature, which demonstrated that even small periods in susceptible patients of non-protective ventilation could induce harm.(2727 Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. N Eng J Med. 2000;342(18):1301-8.

28 Gajic O, Frutos-Vivar F, Esteban A, Hubmayr RD, Anzueto A. Ventilator settings as a risk factor for acute respiratory distress syndrome in mechanically ventilated patients. Intensive Care Med. 2005;31(7):922-6.
-2929 Futier E, Constantin JM, Paugam-Burtz C, Pascal J, Eurin M, Neuschwander A, Marret E, Beaussier M, Gutton C, Lefrant JY, Allaouchiche B, Verzilli D, Leone M, De Jong A, Bazin JE, Pereira B, Jaber S; IMPROVE Study Group. A trial of intraoperative low-tidal-volume ventilation in abdominal surgery. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(5):428-37.) Other constraints are the absence of a cardiac arrhythmia and presence of an arterial line, whose insertion practice is also highly variable between units, with median usage rates in American ICUs as low as 22.4% in medical units and 51.7% in patients with vasopressors.(3030 Gershengorn HB, Garland A, Kramer A, Scales DC, Rubenfeld G, Wunsch H. Variation of arterial and central venous catheter use in United States intensive care units. Anesthesiology. 2014;120(3):650-64.) Therefore, the prevalence of required conditions for the correct application of respiratory dependent indices of fluid responsiveness is very low; commonly, it was less than 10% in the included studies (Table 2). If other confounders are also evaluated (such as HR/RR > 3.6,(1313 De Backer D, Taccone FS, Holsten R, Ibrahimi F, Vincent JL. Influence of respiratory rate on stroke volume variation in mechanically ventilated patients. Anesthesiology. 2009;110(5):1092-7.) low respiratory compliance,(1414 Monnet X, Bleibtreu A, Ferré A, Dres M, Gharbi R, Richard C, et al. Passive leg-raising and end-expiratory occlusion tests perform better than pulse pressure variation in patients with low respiratory system compliance. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(1):152-7.) intra-abdominal hypertension,(3131 Jacques D, Bendjelid K, Duperret S, Colling J, Piriou V, Viale JP. Pulse pressure variation and stroke volume variation during increased intra-abdominal pressure: an experimental study. Crit Care. 2011;15(1):R33.) and pulmonary hypertension(3232 Wyler von Ballmoos M, Takala J, Roeck M, Porta F, Tueller D, Ganter CC, et al. Pulse-pressure variation and hemodynamic response in patients with elevated pulmonary artery pressure: a clinical study. Crit Care. 2010;14(3):R111.)), much lower values are expected, limiting the bedside applicability of these hemodynamic evaluations.

One may argue that a formal meta-analysis to summarize the results should have been attempted. However, given the high statistical heterogeneity detected, any attempt to pool the results could be misleading. A relevant clinical heterogeneity between selected studies could be observed with the case-mix of medical and surgical patients, local setting (ICU or surgical room), different definitions of suitability for final application of dynamic parameters, and length of stay at the time of evaluation. This should be acknowledged when interpreting the final percentage of patients with valid conditions for SVV or PPV, ranging from 1.9% to 42.4%. The Cochrane Group suggests that if significant heterogeneity is detected, one possibility is to not pool the data.(1515 Ryan R; Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. Heterogeneity and subgroup analyses in Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group reviews: planning the analysis at protocol stage [Internet]. 2014 [Available at: http://cccrg.cochrane.org/sites/cccrg.cochrane.org/files/uploads/Heterogeneity%26subgroup_analyses.pdf].
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) Unfortunately, due to the limited number of studies, meta-regression, which is another option, might also be misleading.

Others may also argue that in the early phases of fluid resuscitation, when volume administration has the largest microcirculatory effects,(33 Ospina-Tascon G, Neves AP, Occhipinti G, Donadello K, Büchele G, Simion D, et al. Effects of fluids on microvascular perfusion in patients with severe sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36(6):949-55.) the presence of required conditions would probably be more frequent in the most critically ill. In fact, the only study identified in our systematic review to specifically address this early phase is also the one with the highest prevalence (the study from Benes et al.(1717 Benes J, Zatloukal J, Kletecka J, Simanova A, Haidingerova L, Pradl R. Respiratory induced dynamic variations of stroke volume and its surrogates as predictors of fluid responsiveness: applicability in the early stages of specific critical states. J Clin Monit Comput. 2014;28(3):225-31.) in table 2). However, even in septic patients, for whom timely administration of fluids is considered one of the most life-saving interventions,(22 Vincent JL, De Backer D. Circulatory shock. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(18):1726-34.) three recent large randomized controlled trials regarding protocolized early hemodynamic care observed that approximately 20% of included patients had invasive mechanical ventilation in the first 6 hours.(3333 ProCESS Investigators, Yealy DM, Kellum JA, Huang DT, Barnato AE, Weissfeld LA, et al. A randomized trial of protocol-based care for early septic shock. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(18):1683-93.

34 ARISE Investigators; ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, Peake SL, Delaney A, Bailey M, Bellomo R, et al. Goal-directed resuscitation for patients with early septic shock. N Engl J Med. 2014;371(16):1496-506.
-3535 Mouncey PR, Osborn TM, Power GS, Harrison DA, Sadique MZ, Grieve RD, Jahan R, Harvey SE, Bell D, Bion JF, Coats TJ, Singer M, Young JD, Rowan KM; ProMISe Trial Investigators. Trial of early, goal-directed resuscitation for septic shock. N Engl J Med. 2015;372(14):1301-11.) As a result, even in this important early phase, only a minority would be correctly evaluated using dynamic parameters. Some alternatives have been published for application in patients with spontaneous breathing activity regardless of the cardiac rhythm. The passive leg raise is a preload-modifying maneuver that has been demonstrated to be an excellent predictor of fluid responsiveness (pooled area under the receiver-operating characteristics curve of 0.95 in a recent meta-analysis).(3636 Cavallaro F, Sandroni C, Marano C, La Torre G, Mannocci A, De Waure C, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of passive leg raising for prediction of fluid responsiveness in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36(9):1475-83.)

One final remark is the observation in some recent literature that it might be accurate to apply PPV even in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients who are ventilated with low Vt.(3737 Huang CC, Fu JY, Hu HC, Kao KC, Chen NH, Hsieh MJ, et al. Prediction of fluid responsiveness in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients ventilated with low tidal volume and high positive end-expiratory pressure. Crit Care Med. 2008;36(10):2810-6.,3838 Freitas FG, Bafi AT, Nascente AP, Assunção M, Mazza B, Azevedo LC, et al. Predictive value of pulse pressure variation for fluid responsiveness in septic patients using lung-protective ventilation strategies. Br J Anaesth. 2013;110(3):402-8.) In such a population, higher PPV values might be predictive of fluid responsiveness, which is probably due to lower intrathoracic pressure variation induced by low Vt mechanical ventilation. Therefore, even with "protective ventilation", PPV (and probably SVV) could be justified with the application of higher thresholds. Nevertheless, some drawbacks should also be highlighted. Biais et al. applied the "gray zone" approach to a large cohort of mechanically ventilated patients and observed that in 62% of them, values between 4 and 17% could not predict fluid responsiveness.(3939 Biais M, Ehrmann S, Mari A, Conte B, Mahjoub Y, Desebbe O, Pottecher J, Lakhal K, Benzekri-Lefevre D, Molinari N, Boulain T, Lefrant JY, Muller L; AzuRea Group. Clinical relevance of pulse pressure variations for predicting fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients: the grey zone approach. Crit Care. 2014;18(6):587.) Even if one applies this rationale to weigh the benefit/risk ratio of giving/withholding fluid infusion (i.e., decide to infuse fluids in patients with high values of PPV to correct underperfusion even if they are receiving protective ventilation), fluid administration has a time-dependent effect on the microcirculation.(33 Ospina-Tascon G, Neves AP, Occhipinti G, Donadello K, Büchele G, Simion D, et al. Effects of fluids on microvascular perfusion in patients with severe sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36(6):949-55.) Therefore, in the early phases of fluid management, application of PPV to titrate fluid infusion (such as in the operative room) may improve outcomes,(4040 Benes J, Giglio M, Brienza N, Michard F. The effects of goal-directed fluid therapy based on dynamic parameters on post-surgical outcome: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Crit Care. 2014;18(5):584.) but it could later lead to fluid accumulation without perfusion improvement.(33 Ospina-Tascon G, Neves AP, Occhipinti G, Donadello K, Büchele G, Simion D, et al. Effects of fluids on microvascular perfusion in patients with severe sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36(6):949-55.)

Our study has some strengths and limitations. First, we performed an extensive and systematic literature search for possible articles. Unfortunately, only five studies could be included and, due to the heterogeneity, a formal pooled analysis could not be performed. Second, the population studied in the included articles was treated at the surgical room and ICU, which increases the generalizability as well as the heterogeneity. Finally, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review on the prevalence of respiratory-dependent dynamic indices of fluid responsiveness. Nevertheless, even this important theme was studied in just a few articles, which highlights a relevant lack of knowledge of this issue in different settings.

CONCLUSION

The applicability of dynamic indices of preload responsiveness that require heart-lung interactions might have limited clinical utility. More data are required on how to properly guide volume resuscitation in critically ill patients.

Author contributions

LU Taniguchi, FG Zampieri and AP Nassar Jr. conceived the study concept and helped draft the manuscript. LU Taniguchi and AP Nassar Jr. performed the search queries, reviewed the articles and extracted the data. FG Zampieri performed the statistical analyses. All authors drafted the manuscript and critically revised it. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

  • Disclaimer: Dr Taniguchi, Section Editor for Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, was not involved in the evaluation or decision to publish this article.
  • Responsible editor: Glauco Adrieno Westphal

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Publication Dates

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    Jan-Mar 2017

History

  • Received
    01 Aug 2016
  • Accepted
    17 Aug 2016
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