Katie Moynihan1,2,3, Kerry Johnson1, Lahn Straney4, Christian Stocker1,2,3,5, Ben Anderson5, Prem Venugopal5, John Roy3,6. 1. 1 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital (LCCH), Brisbane, Australia. 2. 2 Pediatric Critical Care Research Group, LCCH, Brisbane, Australia. 3. 3 University of Queensland School of Medicine, Brisbane, Australia. 4. 4 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 5. 5 Queensland Neonatal & Pediatric ECLS Service, LCCH, Brisbane, Australia. 6. 6 Pathology Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) risks thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications. Optimal anti-coagulation monitoring is controversial. We compared coagulation tests evaluating the heparin effect in pediatric ECLS. METHODS: A retrospective study of children (<18yrs) undergoing ECLS over 12 months in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Variables included anti-Factor Xa activity (anti-Xa), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), activated clotting time (ACT) and thromboelastogram (TEG®6s) parameters: ratio and delta reaction (R) times (the ratio and difference, respectively, between R times in kaolin assays with and without heparinase). Test results were correlated with unfractionated heparin infusion rate (IU/kg/hr) at the time of sampling. Mean test results of each ECLS run were evaluated according to the presence/absence of complications. RESULTS: Thirty-two ECLS runs (31 patients) generated 695 data-points for correlation. PICU mortality was 22% and the thrombotic complication rate was 66%. The proportion of variation in coagulation test results explained by heparin dose was 13.3% for anti-Xa, 11.9% for ratio R time, and 9.9% for delta R time, compared with <1% for ACT and aPTT. Incorporating individual variation, age and antithrombin activity in a model with heparin dose explained less than 50% of the variation in test results. Correlation varied according to age, day of ECLS run and between individuals, with parallel dose-response lines noted between patients. Significantly lower mean anti-Xa was observed in PICU non-survivors and runs with thrombosis. CONCLUSION: Lower anti-Xa was observed in ECLS runs with complications. Although absolute results from anti-Xa and TEG6®s showed the best correlation with heparin dose, a large proportion of variation in results was unexplained by heparin, while dose response was similar between individuals. Population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling is required, as well as prospective trials to delineate the superior means of adjusting heparin therapy to prevent adverse clinical outcomes.
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