Shiva Nandiwada1, Sunjidatul Islam2, Jacob C Jentzer3,4, P Elliott Miller5, Christopher B Fordyce6, Patrick Lawler7,8, Carlos L Alviar9, Louise Y Sun10, Douglas C Dover2, Renato D Lopes11, Padma Kaul2,12, Sean van Diepen2,12,13. 1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 2. Canadian VIGOUR Center, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 3. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 4. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 5. Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. 6. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 7. Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 8. Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 9. The Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. 10. Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 11. Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA. 12. Department of Critical Care Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 13. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract
AIMS: The incidence of respiratory failure and use of invasive or non-invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) in the cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) is increasing. While institutional MV volumes are associated with reduced mortality in medical and surgical ICUs, this volume-mortality relationship has not been characterized in the CICU. METHODS AND RESULTS: National population-based data were used to identify patients admitted to CICUs (2005-2015) requiring MV in Canada. CICUs were categorized into low (≤100), intermediate (101-300), and high (>300) volume centres based on spline knots identified in the association between annual MV volume and mortality. Outcomes of interest included all-cause in-hospital mortality, the proportion of patients requiring prolonged MV (>96 h) and CICU length of stay (LOS). Among 47 173 CICU admissions requiring MV, 89.5% (42 200) required invasive MV. The median annual CICU MV volume was 43 (inter-hospital range 1-490). Compared to low-volume centres (35.9%), in-hospital mortality was lower in intermediate [29.2%, adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 0.84, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.72-0.97, P = 0.019] and high-volume (18.2%; aOR 0.82, 95% CI 0.66-1.02, P = 0.076) centres. Prolonged MV was higher in low-volume (29.2%) compared to high-volume (14.8%, aOR 0.70, 95% CI 0.55-0.89, P = 0.003) and intermediate-volume (23.0%, aOR 0.85, 95% CI 0.68-1.06, P = 0.14] centres. Mortality and prolonged MV were lower in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-capable and academic centres, but a shorter CICU LOS was observed only in subgroup of PCI-capable intermediate- and high-volume hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: In a national dataset, we observed that higher CICU MV volumes were associated with lower incidence of in-hospital mortality, prolonged MV, and CICU LOS. Our data highlight the need for minimum MV volume benchmarks for CICUs caring for patients with respiratory failure. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
AIMS: The incidence of respiratory failure and use of invasive or non-invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) in the cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) is increasing. While institutional MV volumes are associated with reduced mortality in medical and surgical ICUs, this volume-mortality relationship has not been characterized in the CICU. METHODS AND RESULTS: National population-based data were used to identify patients admitted to CICUs (2005-2015) requiring MV in Canada. CICUs were categorized into low (≤100), intermediate (101-300), and high (>300) volume centres based on spline knots identified in the association between annual MV volume and mortality. Outcomes of interest included all-cause in-hospital mortality, the proportion of patients requiring prolonged MV (>96 h) and CICU length of stay (LOS). Among 47 173 CICU admissions requiring MV, 89.5% (42 200) required invasive MV. The median annual CICU MV volume was 43 (inter-hospital range 1-490). Compared to low-volume centres (35.9%), in-hospital mortality was lower in intermediate [29.2%, adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 0.84, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.72-0.97, P = 0.019] and high-volume (18.2%; aOR 0.82, 95% CI 0.66-1.02, P = 0.076) centres. Prolonged MV was higher in low-volume (29.2%) compared to high-volume (14.8%, aOR 0.70, 95% CI 0.55-0.89, P = 0.003) and intermediate-volume (23.0%, aOR 0.85, 95% CI 0.68-1.06, P = 0.14] centres. Mortality and prolonged MV were lower in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-capable and academic centres, but a shorter CICU LOS was observed only in subgroup of PCI-capable intermediate- and high-volume hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: In a national dataset, we observed that higher CICU MV volumes were associated with lower incidence of in-hospital mortality, prolonged MV, and CICU LOS. Our data highlight the need for minimum MV volume benchmarks for CICUs caring for patients with respiratory failure. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
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