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Siebers NW, Steiner LA. Anesthesia for traumatic brain injury. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2024; 37:486-492. [PMID: 39011685 DOI: 10.1097/aco.0000000000001404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Traumatic brain injury (TBI) presents complex clinical challenges, requiring a nuanced understanding of its pathophysiology and current management principles to improve patient outcomes. Anesthetists play a critical role in care and need to stay updated with recent evidence and trends to ensure high-quality treatment. The Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines, last updated in 2016, have shown moderate adherence, and much of the current management relies on expert opinions. This literature review synthesizes the current evidence and provides insights into the role of anesthetists in TBI management. RECENT FINDINGS Recent literature has emphasized the importance of tailored anesthetic management principles in treating TBI, focusing on minimizing secondary brain injury during neurosurgical interventions or extracranial surgery. Emerging trends include individualized intracranial pressure approaches and multimodal neuromonitoring for comprehensive assessment of cerebral physiology. SUMMARY Anesthesia for TBI patients requires a comprehensive approach that balances anesthetic goals with the unique pathophysiological factors of brain injury. Despite recent research expanding our understanding, challenges remain in standardizing protocols and addressing individual patient response variability. Adherence to established management principles, personalized approaches, and ongoing research is crucial for improving the outcomes.
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- Nys Willem Siebers
- Clinic for Anaesthesia, Intermediate Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Hu Q, Liu X, Xu T, Wen C, Liu L, Feng J. The impact of ketamine on emergency rapid sequence intubation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Emerg Med 2024; 24:174. [PMID: 39333918 PMCID: PMC11438097 DOI: 10.1186/s12873-024-01094-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 09/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/30/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is a crucial step in the resuscitation process for critically ill patients, and the judicious use of sedative drugs during RSI significantly influences the clinical outcomes of patients. Ketamine is a commonly used anesthetic sedative; however, its impact on the mortality of patients undergoing RSI has yielded inconsistent findings. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating ketamine's role in RSI to provide insights into selecting appropriate sedatives for critically ill patients. METHODS In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we conducted a systematic search on MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, without restricting to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or cohort studies. The search was performed from inception until Dec 12, 2023, with no language restrictions. All studies comparing the use of sedatives, including ketamine, and documenting in-hospital mortality were included in this study. RESULTS A total of 991 studies were identified, out of which 15 studies (5 RCTs and 10 cohort studies) involving 16,807 participants fulfilled the inclusion criteria. No significant impact on in-hospital mortality was observed with the use of ketamine compared to other drugs during RSI (OR 0.90, 95%CI 0.72 to 1.12). Low-quality evidence suggested that ketamine might reduce mortality within the first seven days of hospitalization (OR 0.42, 95%CI 0.19 to 0.93), but it may also have a potential effect on prolonging ICU-free days at day 28 (MD -0.71, 95%CI -1.38 to -0.05). There were no significant differences in the results of the other RSI-related outcomes, such as physiological function and adverse events. CONCLUSIONS Based on existing studies, ketamine showed no significant difference compared to other sedatives in terms of in-hospital mortality, physiological impact, and side effects following RSI. However, it may reduce mortality within 7 days while probably prolong the length of stay in the ICU. TRIAL REGISTRATION CRD42023478020.
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- Qinxue Hu
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, Sichuan, China
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- The Third Central Clinical College, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300170, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, Sichuan, China.
- Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Key Laboratory of Luzhou, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Sichuan Province, Luzhou, 646000, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, Sichuan, China.
- Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Key Laboratory of Luzhou, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Sichuan Province, Luzhou, 646000, China.
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White JDF, Andoniadis MM, Zhang RV. Etomidate Infusion for Procedural Sedation: Additional Experience. Anesth Analg 2024; 139:e6-e7. [PMID: 38885404 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000007044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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- Jeffrey D F White
- Department of Anesthesiology, UF College of Medicine and UF Health, Gainesville, Florida,
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- Department of Anesthesiology, UF College of Medicine and UF Health, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Anesthesiology, UF College of Medicine and UF Health, Gainesville, Florida
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Mansvelder FJ, Bossers SM, Loer SA, Bloemers FW, Van Lieshout EMM, Den Hartog D, Hoogerwerf N, van der Naalt J, Absalom AR, Peerdeman SM, Bulte CSE, Schwarte LA, Schober P. Etomidate versus Ketamine as Prehospital Induction Agent in Patients with Suspected Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Anesthesiology 2024; 140:742-751. [PMID: 38190220 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000004894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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BACKGROUND Severe traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young people around the world. Prehospital care focuses on the prevention and treatment of secondary brain injury and commonly includes tracheal intubation after induction of general anesthesia. The choice of induction agent in this setting is controversial. This study therefore investigated the association between the chosen induction medication etomidate versus S(+)-ketamine and the 30-day mortality in patients with severe traumatic brain injury who received prehospital airway management in the Netherlands. METHODS This study is a retrospective analysis of the prospectively collected observational data of the Brain Injury: Prehospital Registry of Outcomes, Treatments and Epidemiology of Cerebral Trauma (BRAIN-PROTECT) cohort study. Patients with suspected severe traumatic brain injury who were transported to a participating trauma center and who received etomidate or S(+)-ketamine for prehospital induction of anesthesia for advanced airway management were included. Statistical analyses were performed with multivariable logistic regression and inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis. RESULTS In total, 1,457 patients were eligible for analysis. No significant association between the administered induction medication and 30-day mortality was observed in unadjusted analyses (32.9% mortality for etomidate versus 33.8% mortality for S(+)-ketamine; P = 0.716; odds ratio, 1.04; 95% CI, 0.83 to 1.32; P = 0.711), as well as after adjustment for potential confounders (odds ratio, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.67 to 1.73; P = 0.765; and risk difference 0.017; 95% CI, -0.051 to 0.084; P = 0.686). Likewise, in planned subgroup analyses for patients with confirmed traumatic brain injury and patients with isolated traumatic brain injury, no significant differences were found. Consistent results were found after multiple imputations of missing data. CONCLUSIONS The analysis found no evidence for an association between the use of etomidate or S(+)-ketamine as an anesthetic agent for intubation in patients with traumatic brain injury and mortality after 30 days in the prehospital setting, suggesting that the choice of induction agent may not influence the patient mortality rate in this population. EDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE
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- Floor J Mansvelder
- Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Trauma Research Unit, Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Trauma Research Unit, Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Lifeliner 3, Volkel, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Lifeliner 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Lifeliner 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Lifeliner 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Department of Neurosurgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Koroki T, Kotani Y, Yaguchi T, Shibata T, Fujii M, Fresilli S, Tonai M, Karumai T, Lee TC, Landoni G, Hayashi Y. Ketamine versus etomidate as an induction agent for tracheal intubation in critically ill adults: a Bayesian meta-analysis. Crit Care 2024; 28:48. [PMID: 38368326 PMCID: PMC10874027 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-024-04831-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Tracheal intubation is a high-risk intervention commonly performed in critically ill patients. Due to its favorable cardiovascular profile, ketamine is considered less likely to compromise clinical outcomes. This meta-analysis aimed to assess whether ketamine, compared with other agents, reduces mortality in critically ill patients undergoing intubation. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Library from inception until April 27, 2023, for randomized controlled trials and matched observational studies comparing ketamine with any control in critically ill patients as an induction agent. The primary outcome was mortality at the longest follow-up available, and the secondary outcomes included Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, ventilator-free days at day 28, vasopressor-free days at day 28, post-induction mean arterial pressure, and successful intubation on the first attempt. For the primary outcome, we used a Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis on the risk ratio (RR) scale with a weakly informative neutral prior corresponding to a mean estimate of no difference with 95% probability; the estimated effect size will fall between a relative risk of 0.25 and 4. The RR and 95% credible interval (CrI) were used to estimate the probability of mortality reduction (RR < 1). The secondary outcomes were assessed with a frequentist random-effects model. We registered this study in Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/2vf79/ ). RESULTS We included seven randomized trials and one propensity-matched study totaling 2978 patients. Etomidate was the comparator in all the identified studies. The probability that ketamine reduced mortality was 83.2% (376/1475 [25%] vs. 411/1503 [27%]; RR, 0.93; 95% CrI, 0.79-1.08), which was confirmed by a subgroup analysis excluding studies with a high risk of bias. No significant difference was observed in any secondary outcomes. CONCLUSIONS All of the included studies evaluated ketamine versus etomidate among critically ill adults requiring tracheal intubation. This meta-analysis showed a moderate probability that induction with ketamine is associated with a reduced risk of mortality.
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- Takatoshi Koroki
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan.
- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
- School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, 296-8602, Japan
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Tangkulpanich P, Angkoontassaneeyarat C, Trainarongsakul T, Jenpanitpong C. Factors Associated with Postintubation Hypotension Among Patients with Suspected Sepsis in Emergency Department. Open Access Emerg Med 2023; 15:427-436. [PMID: 38022743 PMCID: PMC10656833 DOI: 10.2147/oaem.s426822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Purpose Postintubation hypotension (PIH) is a recognized complication that increases both in-hospital mortality and hospital length of stay. Sepsis is reportedly a factor associated with PIH. However, no study to date has examined which factors, including the intubation method, may be clinical predictors of PIH in patients with sepsis. This study aims to investigate factors associated with the occurrence of PIH in patients with suspected sepsis in emergency department. Patients and Methods This retrospective cross-sectional study was performed over a 5-year period (January 2013-December 2017) and involved patients with suspected sepsis who underwent endotracheal intubation in the emergency department of Ramathibodi Hospital. The patients were divided into those with and without PIH, and factors associated with the occurrence of PIH were analyzed. PIH was defined as any recorded systolic blood pressure of <90 mmHg within 60 minutes of intubation. Results In total, 394 patients with suspected sepsis were included. PIH occurred in 106 patients (26.9%) and was associated with increased in-hospital mortality (43.00% in the PIH group vs 31.25% in the non-PIH group, P = 0.034). Multivariable logistic regression showed that the factors associated with PIH were an age of ≥61 years (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.25; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.14-4.43; P = 0.019) and initial serum lactate concentration of >4.4 mmol/L (aOR 2.00; 95% CI 1.16-3.46; P = 0.013). Rapid sequence intubation and difference types of induction agents was unrelated to PIH. Conclusion Monitoring the development of PIH in patients with sepsis is essential because of its correlation with higher in-hospital mortality. This is particularly critical for older individuals and those with severe infections and high initial lactate concentrations.
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- Panvilai Tangkulpanich
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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