Sameer S Kadri1, Andrew C Miller2, Samuel Hohmann3, Stephanie Bonne4, Carrie Nielsen5, Carmen Wells6, Courtney Gruver6, Sadeq A Quraishi7, Junfeng Sun8, Rongman Cai8, Peter E Morris9, Bradley D Freeman4, James H Holmes6, Bruce A Cairns5, Anthony F Suffredini8. 1. Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: sameer.kadri@nih.gov. 2. Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Department of Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 3. University HealthSystem Consortium, Chicago, IL; Department of Health Systems Management, Rush University, Chicago, IL. 4. Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 5. North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, University of North Carolina Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC. 6. Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest Medical Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. 7. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 8. Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. 9. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest Medical Center, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mortality after smoke inhalation-associated acute lung injury (SI-ALI) remains substantial. Age and burn surface area are risk factors of mortality, whereas the impact of patient- and center-level variables and treatments on survival are unknown. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of burn and non-burn centers at 68 US academic medical centers between 2011 and 2014. Adult inpatients with SI-ALI were identified using an algorithm based on a billing code for respiratory conditions from smoke inhalation who were mechanically ventilated by hospital day 4, with either a length-of-stay ≥ 5 days or death within 4 days of hospitalization. Predictors of in-hospital mortality were identified using logistic regression. The primary outcome was the odds ratio for in-hospital mortality. RESULTS: A total of 769 patients (52.9 ± 18.1 years) with SI-ALI were analyzed. In-hospital mortality was 26% in the SI-ALI cohort and 50% in patients with ≥ 20% surface burns. In addition to age > 60 years (OR 5.1, 95% CI 2.53-10.26) and ≥ 20% burns (OR 8.7, 95% CI 4.55-16.75), additional risk factors of in-hospital mortality included initial vasopressor use (OR 5.0, 95% CI 3.16-7.91), higher diagnostic-related group-based risk-of-mortality assignment and lower hospital bed capacity (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.23-4.15). Initial empiric antibiotics (OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.58-1.49) did not impact survival. These new risk factors improved mortality prediction by 9.9% (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: In addition to older age and major surface burns, mortality in SI-ALI is predicted by initial vasopressor use, higher diagnostic-related group-based risk-of-mortality assignment, and care at centers with < 500 beds, but not by initial antibiotic therapy. Published by Elsevier Inc.
BACKGROUND: Mortality after smoke inhalation-associated acute lung injury (SI-ALI) remains substantial. Age and burn surface area are risk factors of mortality, whereas the impact of patient- and center-level variables and treatments on survival are unknown. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of burn and non-burn centers at 68 US academic medical centers between 2011 and 2014. Adult inpatients with SI-ALI were identified using an algorithm based on a billing code for respiratory conditions from smoke inhalation who were mechanically ventilated by hospital day 4, with either a length-of-stay ≥ 5 days or death within 4 days of hospitalization. Predictors of in-hospital mortality were identified using logistic regression. The primary outcome was the odds ratio for in-hospital mortality. RESULTS: A total of 769 patients (52.9 ± 18.1 years) with SI-ALI were analyzed. In-hospital mortality was 26% in the SI-ALI cohort and 50% in patients with ≥ 20% surface burns. In addition to age > 60 years (OR 5.1, 95% CI 2.53-10.26) and ≥ 20% burns (OR 8.7, 95% CI 4.55-16.75), additional risk factors of in-hospital mortality included initial vasopressor use (OR 5.0, 95% CI 3.16-7.91), higher diagnostic-related group-based risk-of-mortality assignment and lower hospital bed capacity (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.23-4.15). Initial empiric antibiotics (OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.58-1.49) did not impact survival. These new risk factors improved mortality prediction by 9.9% (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: In addition to older age and major surface burns, mortality in SI-ALI is predicted by initial vasopressor use, higher diagnostic-related group-based risk-of-mortality assignment, and care at centers with < 500 beds, but not by initial antibiotic therapy. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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