AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005075
Jeffrey H Silber, Paul R Rosenbaum, Joseph G Reiter, Siddharth Jain, Alexander S Hill, Sean Hashemi, Sydney Brown, Mark Olfson, Caleb Ing
{"title":"Exposure to Operative Anesthesia in Childhood and Subsequent Neurobehavioral Diagnoses: A Natural Experiment Using Appendectomy.","authors":"Jeffrey H Silber, Paul R Rosenbaum, Joseph G Reiter, Siddharth Jain, Alexander S Hill, Sean Hashemi, Sydney Brown, Mark Olfson, Caleb Ing","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005075","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Observational studies of anesthetic neurotoxicity may be biased because children requiring anesthesia commonly have medical conditions associated with neurobehavioral problems. This study takes advantage of a natural experiment associated with appendicitis to determine whether anesthesia and surgery in childhood were specifically associated with subsequent neurobehavioral outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study identified 134,388 healthy children with appendectomy and examined the incidence of subsequent externalizing or behavioral disorders (conduct, impulse control, oppositional defiant, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) or internalizing or mood or anxiety disorders (depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder) when compared to 671,940 matched healthy controls as identified in Medicaid data between 2001 and 2018. For comparison, this study also examined 154,887 otherwise healthy children admitted to the hospital for pneumonia, cellulitis, and gastroenteritis, of which only 8% received anesthesia, and compared them to 774,435 matched healthy controls. In addition, this study examined the difference-in-differences between matched appendectomy patients and their controls and matched medical admission patients and their controls.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to controls, children with appendectomy were more likely to have subsequent behavioral disorders (hazard ratio, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.01 to 1.06; P = 0.0010) and mood or anxiety disorders (hazard ratio, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.13 to 1.17; P < 0.0001). Relative to controls, children with medical admissions were also more likely to have subsequent behavioral (hazard ratio, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.18 to 1.22; P < 0.0001) and mood or anxiety (hazard ratio, 1.25; 95% CI, 1.23 to 1.27; P < 0.0001) disorders. Comparing the difference between matched appendectomy patients and their matched controls to the difference between matched medical patients and their matched controls, medical patients had more subsequent neurobehavioral problems than appendectomy patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Although there is an association between neurobehavioral diagnoses and appendectomy, this association is not specific to anesthesia exposure and is stronger in medical admissions. Medical admissions, generally without anesthesia exposure, displayed significantly higher rates of these disorders than appendectomy-exposed patients.</p><p><strong>Editor’s perspective: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"489-499"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11361557/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140955876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005113
Daniel I Sessler
{"title":"Just Do It!","authors":"Daniel I Sessler","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005113","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":"141 3","pages":"428-430"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005032
Vincent So, Dhenuka Radhakrishnan, Johnna MacCormick, Richard J Webster, Anne Tsampalieros, Gabriele Zitikyte, Allyson Ripley, Kimmo Murto
{"title":"Does Celecoxib Prescription for Pain Management Affect Post-tonsillectomy Hemorrhage Requiring Surgery? A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study.","authors":"Vincent So, Dhenuka Radhakrishnan, Johnna MacCormick, Richard J Webster, Anne Tsampalieros, Gabriele Zitikyte, Allyson Ripley, Kimmo Murto","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005032","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adenotonsillectomy and tonsillectomy (referred to as tonsillectomy hereafter) are common pediatric surgeries. Postoperative complications include hemorrhage requiring surgery (2 to 3% of cases) and pain. Although nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are commonly administered for postsurgical pain, controversy exists regarding bleeding risk with cyclooxygenase-1 inhibition and associated platelet dysfunction. Preliminary evidence suggests selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, for example celecoxib, effectively manage pain without adverse events including bleeding. Given the paucity of data for routine celecoxib use after tonsillectomy, this study was designed to investigate the association between postoperative celecoxib prescription and post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery using chart-review data from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>After ethics approval, a retrospective single-center observational cohort study was performed in children less than 18 yr of age undergoing tonsillectomy from January 2007 to December 2017. Cases of adenoidectomy alone were excluded due to low bleed rates. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery. The association between a celecoxib prescription and post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery was estimated using inverse probability of treatment weighting based on propensity scores and using generalized estimating equations to accommodate clustering by surgeon.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>An initial patient cohort of 6,468 was identified, and 5,846 children with complete data were included in analyses. Median (interquartile range) age was 6.10 (4.40, 9.00) yr, and 46% were female. In the cohort, 28.1% (n = 1,644) were prescribed celecoxib. Among the 4,996 tonsillectomy patients, 1.7% (n = 86) experienced post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery. The proportion with post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery among patients who had a tonsillectomy and were or were not prescribed celecoxib was 1.94% (30 of 1,548; 95% CI, 1.36 to 2.75) and 1.62% (56 of 3,448; 95% CI, 1.25 to 2.10), respectively. Modeling did not identify an association between celecoxib prescription and increased odds of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery (odds ratio = 1.4; 95% CI, 0.85 to 2.31; P = 0.20).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Celecoxib does not significantly increase the odds of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage requiring surgery, after adjusting for covariates. This large pediatric cohort study of celecoxib administered after tonsillectomy provides compelling evidence for safety but requires confirmation with a multisite randomized controlled trial.</p><p><strong>Editor’s perspective: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"313-325"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140847349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005044
{"title":"Science, Medicine, and the Anesthesiologist (May 2024): Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005044","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"419"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141260456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005043
Ian Yuan, Annery G Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Bingqing Zhang, Allison M Ulrich, Georgia Georgostathi, Richard M Missett, Shih-Shan Lang, James L Bruton, C Dean Kurth
{"title":"Electroencephalographic Indices for Clinical Endpoints during Propofol Anesthesia in Infants: An Early-phase Propofol Biomarker-finding Study.","authors":"Ian Yuan, Annery G Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Bingqing Zhang, Allison M Ulrich, Georgia Georgostathi, Richard M Missett, Shih-Shan Lang, James L Bruton, C Dean Kurth","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005043","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005043","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Unlike expired sevoflurane concentration, propofol lacks a biomarker for its brain effect site concentration, leading to dosing imprecision particularly in infants. Electroencephalography monitoring can serve as a biomarker for propofol effect site concentration, yet proprietary electroencephalography indices are not validated in infants. The authors evaluated spectral edge frequency (SEF95) as a propofol anesthesia biomarker in infants. It was hypothesized that the SEF95 targets will vary for different clinical stimuli and an inverse relationship existed between SEF95 and propofol plasma concentration.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This prospective study enrolled infants (3 to 12 months) to determine the SEF95 ranges for three clinical endpoints of anesthesia (consciousness-pacifier placement, pain-electrical nerve stimulation, and intubation-laryngoscopy) and correlation between SEF95 and propofol plasma concentration at steady state. Dixon's up-down method was used to determine target SEF95 for each clinical endpoint. Centered isotonic regression determined the dose-response function of SEF95 where 50% and 90% of infants (ED50 and ED90) did not respond to the clinical endpoint. Linear mixed-effect model determined the association of propofol plasma concentration and SEF95.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 49 enrolled infants, 44 evaluable (90%) showed distinct SEF95 for endpoints: pacifier (ED50, 21.4 Hz; ED90, 19.3 Hz), electrical stimulation (ED50, 12.6 Hz; ED90, 10.4 Hz), and laryngoscopy (ED50, 8.5 Hz; ED90, 5.2 Hz). From propofol 0.5 to 6 μg/ml, a 1-Hz SEF95 increase was linearly correlated to a 0.24 (95% CI, 0.19 to 0.29; P < 0.001) μg/ml decrease in plasma propofol concentration (marginal R2 = 0.55).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SEF95 can be a biomarker for propofol anesthesia depth in infants, potentially improving dosing accuracy and utilization of propofol anesthesia in this population.</p><p><strong>Editor’s perspective: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"353-364"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140890861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000004991
Jeremy P Walco, Kimberly F Rengel, Matthew D McEvoy, C Patrick Henson, Gen Li, Matthew S Shotwell, Xiaoke Feng, Robert E Freundlich
{"title":"Association between Preoperative Blood Pressures and Postoperative Adverse Events.","authors":"Jeremy P Walco, Kimberly F Rengel, Matthew D McEvoy, C Patrick Henson, Gen Li, Matthew S Shotwell, Xiaoke Feng, Robert E Freundlich","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000004991","DOIUrl":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000004991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The relationship between postoperative adverse events and blood pressures in the preoperative period remains poorly understood. This study tested the hypothesis that day-of-surgery preoperative blood pressures are associated with postoperative adverse events.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors conducted a retrospective, observational study of adult patients having elective procedures requiring an inpatient stay between November 2017 and July 2021 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to examine the independent associations between preoperative systolic and diastolic blood pressures (SBP, DBP) recorded immediately before anesthesia care and number of postoperative adverse events-myocardial injury, stroke, acute kidney injury, and mortality-while adjusting for potential confounders. The study used multivariable ordinal logistic regression to model the relationship.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The analysis included 57,389 cases. The overall incidence of myocardial injury, stroke, acute kidney injury, and mortality within 30 days of surgery was 3.4% (1,967 events), 0.4% (223), 10.2% (5,871), and 2.1% (1,223), respectively. The independent associations between both SBP and DBP measurements and number of postoperative adverse events were found to be U-shaped, with greater risk both above and less than SBP 143 mmHg and DBP 86 mmHg-the troughs of the curves. The associations were strongest at SBP 173 mmHg (adjusted odds ratio, 1.212 vs. 143 mmHg; 95% CI, 1.021 to 1.439; P = 0.028), SBP 93 mmHg (adjusted odds ratio, 1.339 vs. 143 mmHg; 95% CI, 1.211 to 1.479; P < 0.001), DBP 106 mmHg (adjusted odds ratio, 1.294 vs. 86 mmHg; 95% CI, 1.003 to 1.17671; P = 0.048), and DBP 46 mmHg (adjusted odds ratio, 1.399 vs. 86 mmHg; 95% CI, 1.244 to 1.558; P < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Preoperative blood pressures both less than and above a specific threshold were independently associated with a higher number of postoperative adverse events, but the data do not support specific strategies for managing patients with low or high blood pressure on the day of surgery.</p><p><strong>Editor’s perspective: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":"272-285"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11233238/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140334469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnesthesiologyPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000005170
Guido Mazzinari, Fernando G Zampieri, Lorenzo Ball, Niklas S Campos, Thomas Bluth, Sabrine Nt Hemmes, Carlos Ferrando, Julian Librero, Marina Soro, Paolo Pelosi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Marcus J Schultz, Ary Serpa Neto
{"title":"High PEEP with recruitment maneuvers versus Low PEEP During General Anesthesia for Surgery - a Bayesian individual patient data meta-analysis of three randomized clinical trials.","authors":"Guido Mazzinari, Fernando G Zampieri, Lorenzo Ball, Niklas S Campos, Thomas Bluth, Sabrine Nt Hemmes, Carlos Ferrando, Julian Librero, Marina Soro, Paolo Pelosi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Marcus J Schultz, Ary Serpa Neto","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000005170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The influence of high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with recruitment maneuvers on the occurrence of postoperative pulmonary complications after surgery is still not definitively established. Bayesian analysis can help to gain further insights from the available data and provide a probabilistic framework that is easier to interpret. Our objective was to estimate the posterior probability that the use of high PEEP with recruitment maneuvers is associated with reduced postoperative pulmonary complications in patients with intermediate-to-high risk under neutral, pessimistic, and optimistic expectations regarding the treatment effect.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Multilevel Bayesian logistic regression analysis on individual patient data from three randomized clinical trials carried out on surgical patients at Intermediate-to-High Risk for postoperative pulmonary complications. The main outcome was the occurrence of postoperative pulmonary complications in the early postoperative period. We studied the effect of high PEEP with recruitment maneuvers versus Low PEEP Ventilation. Priors were chosen to reflect neutral, pessimistic, and optimistic expectations of the treatment effect.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Using a neutral, pessimistic, or optimistic prior, the posterior mean odds ratio (OR) for High PEEP with recruitment maneuvers compared to Low PEEP was 0.85 (95% Credible Interval [CrI] 0.71 to 1.02), 0.87 (0.72 to 1.04), and 0.86 (0.71 to 1.02), respectively. Regardless of prior beliefs, the posterior probability of experiencing a beneficial effect exceeded 90%. Subgroup analysis indicated a more pronounced effect in patients who underwent laparoscopy (OR: 0.67 [0.50 to 0.87]) and those at high risk for PPCs (OR: 0.80 [0.53 to 1.13]). Sensitivity analysis, considering severe postoperative pulmonary complications only or applying a different heterogeneity prior, yielded consistent results.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>High PEEP with recruitment maneuvers demonstrated a moderate reduction in the probability of PPC occurrence, with a high posterior probability of benefit observed consistently across various prior beliefs, particularly among patients who underwent laparoscopy.</p>","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141747279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determination of the Optimal Volume of 0.5% Ropivacaine in Single-Injection Retroclavicular Brachial Plexus Block for Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery: A Phase I/II Trial.","authors":"Hongye Zhang, Jinyu Wu, Yongsheng Miao, Ying Yuan, Zongyang Qu, Yaonan Zhang, Zhen Hua","doi":"10.1097/ALN.0000000000005159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000005159","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A brachial plexus block plays an important role in providing perioperative analgesia for shoulder surgery; however, the inherent risk of phrenic nerve block and resulting hemidiaphragmatic paralysis may limit its use in patients with compromised pulmonary function. This study aimed to evaluate safety, efficacy, the maximum tolerated volume, and the optimal biological volume of 0.5% ropivacaine used in a single-injection retroclavicular brachial plexus block for arthroscopic shoulder surgery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this seamless single-arm exploratory phase I/II trial, a novel Bayesian optimal interval design was used to guide volume escalation for determination of the maximum tolerated volume, followed by sequential volume expansion using Bayesian optimal phase 2 design to establish the optimal biological volume. Fifty-four patients who underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery received a single-injection retroclavicular brachial plexus block with 0.5% ropivacaine ranging from 15 mL to 40 mL. The primary outcomes were complete or partial hemidiaphragmatic paralysis in phase I, measured using ultrasound 30 min after block completion, and the block success in phase II, defined as achieving a total sensorimotor score ≥12 points and the total sensory score ≥3, measured through manual sensorimotor testing.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The maximum tolerated volume for the single-injection retroclavicular brachial plexus block was determined to be 35 mL of 0.5% ropivacaine, with a hemidiaphragmatic paralysis rate of 0.09 (95% credible interval, 0 to 0.29). The optimal biological volume was found to be 25 mL, with a block success rate of 1.0 (95% credible interval, 0.95 to 1.0) and a negligible hemidiaphragmatic paralysis rate of 0.01 (95% credible interval, 0 to 0.06).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A single-injection retroclavicular brachial plexus block using 25 mL of 0.5% ropivacaine produced consistent block success with a minimal HDP rate, suggesting the need for further studies to confirm this result in arthroscopic shoulder surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":7970,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesiology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141632444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}