Blood pressure management in acute spinal cord injury: A retrospective study of acute intensive care management of traumatic spinal cord injury in two New South Wales referral centres.
Tessa Garside, Ralph Stanford, Oliver Flower, Trent Li, Edward Dababneh, Naomi Hammond, Frances Bass, James Middleton, Jonathan Tang, Jonathan Ball, Anthony Delaney
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Abstract
Background: International guidelines recommend maintenance of mean arterial pressure (MAP) > 85 mmHg to defend spinal cord perfusion pressure after acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Variation in practice has been demonstrated in the emergency department blood pressure management of SCI in New South Wales (NSW). It is unknown whether this variation exists in the phase of intensive care management of acute SCI.
Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe and compare current blood pressure management in the intensive care unit (ICU) of patients with acute traumatic SCI in two SCI referral centres in NSW.
Methods: Patients with acute traumatic SCI admitted to two SCI referral centres, Unit A and Unit B during 2018-2019 in NSW, were included. Data were summarised using descriptive statistics.
Results: Ninety-eight patients were included, with 91 patients having been prescribed a blood pressure target, 81 (83%) having required vasopressors, and 18 (18%) of these having been documented to have complications associated with vasopressor use. The average prescribed MAP target was 78 (interquartile range [IQR]: 10) mmHg in Unit A and 76 (IQR: 12) mmHg in Unit B. Median durations of prescribed target were 120 (IQR: 72) hours and 120 (IQR: 120) hours in Unit A and Unit B, respectively. The average MAP over the first 7 d was 88 (standard deviation: 9.5) mmHg in Unit A and 85 (standard deviation: 7.5) mmHg in Unit B. Sixty-three patients (64%) had a documented systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg in the first 24 h. Median ICU length of stay (LOS) was 9.7 (IQR: 11) d in Unit A and 6 (IQR: 6.6) d in Unit B. Median hospital LOS was 27 (IQR: 56.2) d in Unit B and 34.7 (IQR: 32.3) d in Unit B. ICU LOS was longer in patients who had a MAP target than in those who did not.
Conclusions: Current blood pressure management in acute SCI in NSW involves ICU admission and blood pressure support with vasopressors; however, prescribed blood pressure targets are not in line with international guidelines.
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Australian Critical Care is the official journal of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). It is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal, providing clinically relevant research, reviews and articles of interest to the critical care community. Australian Critical Care publishes peer-reviewed scholarly papers that report research findings, research-based reviews, discussion papers and commentaries which are of interest to an international readership of critical care practitioners, educators, administrators and researchers. Interprofessional articles are welcomed.
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