Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007303
Andres Laserna, Edwin van Wijngaarden, Eric C Sun, Yue Li, Joseph L Nates, Laurent G Glance
{"title":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Failure-to-Rescue After Postoperative Sepsis After Noncardiac Surgery.","authors":"Andres Laserna, Edwin van Wijngaarden, Eric C Sun, Yue Li, Joseph L Nates, Laurent G Glance","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007303","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sepsis disproportionately affects marginalized communities. This study aims to evaluate racial and ethnic disparities in failure-to-rescue (FTR) after postoperative sepsis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional study used data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program for patients who underwent inpatient noncardiac surgery between 2018 and 2021. Patients were categorized as non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White), non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black), Asian, and Hispanic individuals. The association between (1) FTR after sepsis and (2) FTR after septic shock and race and ethnicity was evaluated using multivariable logistic regression. Failure-to-rescue was defined as 30-day mortality among patients who developed postoperative sepsis or postoperative septic shock.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 1388,977 patients (mean [SD] age 60.5 [16]); 783,056 (56.4%) were female, 1017,875 (73%) were White, 171,774 (12%) were Black, 138,457 (10%) were Hispanic, and 60,871 (4%) were Asian. Compared to White individuals, Black (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.29; 95% CI, 1.23-1.35, P < .001) and Hispanic individuals (aOR, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.09-1.21, P < .001) were more likely to develop sepsis; Black individuals were more likely to develop septic shock (aOR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.21-1.36; P < .001), and Asians were less likely to develop septic shock (aOR 0.84; 95% CI, 0.75-0.93, P = .002). Black individuals experienced lower rates of FTR after sepsis [Black: (aOR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.54-0.94; P = .017), while Black (aOR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.80-1.08; P = .35)], Hispanic (aOR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.72-1.06; P = .16) and Asian Individuals (aOR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.8-1.37; P = .67) experienced similar rates of FTR after septic shock compared to White individuals.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Black and Hispanic individuals experienced higher rates of postoperative sepsis but did not experience higher rates of failure-to-rescue. Reducing inequity in surgical care should focus on efforts to prevent postoperative sepsis.</p>","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"181-189"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12127501/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142765405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007108
Raoul Schorer, Arni Ibsen, Andres Hagerman, Christoph Ellenberger, Alessandro Putzu
{"title":"Diagnostic Accuracy of Vascular Ultrasonography for Postanesthesia Induction Hypotension: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Raoul Schorer, Arni Ibsen, Andres Hagerman, Christoph Ellenberger, Alessandro Putzu","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007108","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Arterial hypotension commonly occurs after anesthesia induction and is associated with negative clinical outcomes. Point-of-care ultrasound examination has emerged as a modality to predict postinduction hypotension (PIH). We performed a systematic review and network meta-analysis of the predictive performance of point-of-care ultrasound tests for PIH in noncardiac, nonobstetrical routine adult surgery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Online databases were searched for diagnostic test accuracy studies of point-of-care ultrasound for predicting PIH up to March 30, 2023. The systematic review followed the Cochrane methodology. A Bayesian diagnostic test accuracy network meta-analysis model was used, with PIH as defined by study authors as the main outcome. Risk of bias and applicability were examined through the QUADAS-2 (Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) score. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) framework was used to assess evidence certainty.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 32 studies with 2631 participants were eligible for systematic review. Twenty-six studies with 2258 participants representing 8 ultrasound tests were included in the meta-analysis. Inferior vena cava collapsibility index (22 studies) sensitivity was 60% (95% credible interval [CrI], 49%-72%) and specificity was 83% (CrI, 74%-89%). Carotid artery corrected flow time (2 studies) sensitivity was 91% (CrI, 76%-98%) and specificity was 90% (CrI, 59%-98%). There were serious bias and applicability concerns due to selection bias and inappropriate blinding. The certainty of evidence was very low for all tests.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The predictive performance of point-of-care ultrasound for PIH is uncertain. There is a need for high-quality randomized controlled trials with appropriate blinding and void of selection bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"26-37"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141282776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007355
Matthew J Cameron, Justin Long, Stephen S Yang, Kenneth Kardash
{"title":"How Many Patients Are Needed to Detect a Difference in Pain With Parasternal Blocks?","authors":"Matthew J Cameron, Justin Long, Stephen S Yang, Kenneth Kardash","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007355","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"210-211"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007378
Laurentiu Marin, Robert L Kleinberg
{"title":"Climate Change, Emissions of Volatile Anesthetics, and Policy Making: The Case of Desflurane.","authors":"Laurentiu Marin, Robert L Kleinberg","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007378","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"123-127"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12140548/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143412891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007384
Francis X Guyette, Prasanna Chaudhary, Laura E Vincent, Emily T Love, Donavan P Brubaker, Matthew D Neal, Joshua B Brown, Jeffrey Rixe, David J Barton, Adam Yates, Stephen R Wisniewski, Jason L Sperry
{"title":"A Randomized Controlled Trial of Sublingual Sufentanil in Early Management of Pain in Trauma.","authors":"Francis X Guyette, Prasanna Chaudhary, Laura E Vincent, Emily T Love, Donavan P Brubaker, Matthew D Neal, Joshua B Brown, Jeffrey Rixe, David J Barton, Adam Yates, Stephen R Wisniewski, Jason L Sperry","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007384","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007384","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pain management is essential in trauma. Sufentanil is a potent sublingual opioid analgesic with no active metabolites and rapid onset relative to oral medications. We hypothesize that compared to standard care, Sufentanil reduces the verbally administered numerical pain scale (VNRS) at 30 minutes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a prospective multicenter, open-label, randomized trial utilizing level-1 trauma centers from within the Linking Investigator in Trauma and Emergency Services (LITES) network. Participants were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either sublingual sufentanil or standard care. We enrolled 150 patients from July 2022 to January 2024. The study was approved by the human subjects research protection offices of the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of Defense. Subjects were eligible if they had a trauma evaluation, were 18 to 70, had a VNRS (0-100) score ≥50, and remained in the ED for at least 30 minutes. We excluded patients who were prisoners, pregnant, allergic to opioids, required airway management, body mass index (BMI) >40, significant respiratory depression, suspected gastrointestinal obstruction, or other contraindication to analgesics. The primary outcome was the VNRS for clinical pain measurement (0-100) at 30 minutes after treatment. Secondary outcomes included adverse events (hypoxia, hypotension, need for airway management) and the incidence of nausea/vomiting/headache/dizziness requiring treatment. We hypothesize that sublingual sufentanil as compared to emergency department standard care, will reduce the VNRS at 30 minutes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study population had a mean age of 48 years (standard deviation [SD] 15) and was 32% female. The mechanism of injury was mostly blunt (96%). The VNRS at 30 minutes was 67 (SD 25) for the entire cohort, 66 (SD 23) in the sufentanil group, and 68 (SD 27) in the standard care group ( P = .37). The Health care Professional Global Assessment (HPGA) at 30 minutes showed decreased pain scores in the standard care group compared to sufentanil, with standard care having more patients scored as good or excellent ( P = .009). There was no difference in the incidence of nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, hypoxia, hypotension, or need for an advanced airway.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this cohort of trauma patients with moderate to severe pain, the VNRS at 30 minutes after administration of analgesics did not differ between sublingual sufentanil and standard care. Adverse events did not differ between the groups suggesting the sublingual sufentanil in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"172-180"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007379
Arman Valadkhani, Anil Gupta, Giordano Cauli, Johan L Nordström, Ayda Rohi, Panos Tufexis, Caroline Hällsjö Sander, Martin Jacobsson, Max Bell
{"title":"Diastolic Versus Systolic or Mean Intraoperative Hypotension as Predictive of Perioperative Myocardial Injury in a White-Box Machine-Learning Model.","authors":"Arman Valadkhani, Anil Gupta, Giordano Cauli, Johan L Nordström, Ayda Rohi, Panos Tufexis, Caroline Hällsjö Sander, Martin Jacobsson, Max Bell","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007379","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Intraoperative hypotension (IOH) and tachycardia are associated with perioperative myocardial injury (PMI), and thereby increased postoperative mortality. Patients undergoing vascular surgery are specifically at risk of developing cardiac complications. This study aimed to explore the association between different thresholds for IOH and tachycardia, and PMI. It also aimed to explore which threshold for IOH and tachycardia best predicts PMI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this single-center prospective observational study, high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T was measured preoperatively and at 4, 24, and 48 hours after vascular surgery. Absolute and relative thresholds were used to define intraoperative systolic, mean, and diastolic arterial hypotension, measured every 15 seconds by invasive arterial pressure monitoring and heart rate using the Philips IntelliVue X3 monitor. Decision tree machine-learning (ML) models were used to explore which thresholds for IOH and tachycardia best predict PMI. Clinical utility and transparency were prioritized over maximizing the performance of the ML model and therefore a white-box model was used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In all, 498 patients were included in the study. Ninety-nine patients (20%) had PMI. Significant associations were found between IOH and PMI using both absolute and relative thresholds for systolic, mean, and diastolic arterial pressure. Absolute thresholds based on diastolic arterial pressure had the strongest correlation with PMI and yielded greater statistical significance. The threshold that was most predictive of PMI was an absolute diastolic arterial pressure <44 mm Hg. The prediction model with the absolute threshold of diastolic arterial pressure <44 mm Hg had a macro average F1 score of 0.67 and a weighted average F1 score of 0.76. No association was found between tachycardia and PMI.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We found that an absolute, not relative, IOH threshold based on diastolic arterial pressure, and not systolic or mean arterial pressure, or tachycardia, was most predictive of PMI.</p>","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"5-15"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12140561/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anesthesia and analgesiaPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-03-21DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007484
Vicente Garcia-Tomas, Honorio T Benzon, Feyce M Peralta
{"title":"Air or Saline? Unlocking the Best Approach for Loss-of-Resistance During Epidural Space Access.","authors":"Vicente Garcia-Tomas, Honorio T Benzon, Feyce M Peralta","doi":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007484","DOIUrl":"10.1213/ANE.0000000000007484","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7784,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia and analgesia","volume":" ","pages":"100-102"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143673166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}