Tara M Neumayr1, Jeffrey A Alten2, David K Bailly3, Priya N Bhat4, Katie L Brandewie2, J Wesley Diddle5, Muhammad Ghbeis6, Catherine D Krawczeski7, Kenneth E Mah8, Tia T Raymond9, Garrett Reichle10, Huaiyu Zang2, David T Selewski11. 1. Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. neumayr_t@wustl.edu. 2. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 3. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 4. Department of Pediatrics, Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. 5. Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA. 6. Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 7. Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA. 8. Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA. 9. Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Medical City Children's Hospital, Dallas, TX, USA. 10. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 11. Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Fluid overload associates with poor outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery, but consensus does not exist for the most clinically relevant method of measuring fluid balance (FB). While weight change-based FB (FB-W) is standard in neonatal intensive care units, weighing infants after cardiac surgery may be challenging. We aimed to identify characteristics associated with obtaining weights and to understand how intake/output-based FB (FB-IO) and FB-W compare in the early postoperative period in this population. METHODS: Observational retrospective study of 2235 neonates undergoing cardiac surgery from 22 hospitals comprising the NEonatal and Pediatric Heart and Renal Outcomes Network (NEPHRON) database. RESULTS: Forty-five percent (n = 998) of patients were weighed on postoperative day (POD) 2, varying from 2 to 98% among centers. Odds of being weighed were lower for STAT categories 4 and 5 (OR 0.72; 95% CI 0.53-0.98), cardiopulmonary bypass (0.59; 0.42-0.83), delayed sternal closure (0.27; 0.19-0.38), prophylactic peritoneal dialysis use (0.58; 0.34-0.99), and mechanical ventilation on POD 2 (0.23; 0.16-0.33). Correlation between FB-IO and FB-W was weak for every POD 1-6 and within the entire cohort (correlation coefficient 0.15; 95% CI 0.12-0.17). FB-W measured higher than paired FB-IO (mean bias 12.5%; 95% CI 11.6-13.4%) with wide 95% limits of agreement (- 15.4-40.4%). CONCLUSIONS: Weighing neonates early after cardiac surgery is uncommon, with significant practice variation among centers. Patients with increased severity of illness are less likely to be weighed. FB-W and FB-IO have weak correlation, and further study is needed to determine which cumulative FB metric most associates with adverse outcomes. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.
BACKGROUND: Fluid overload associates with poor outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery, but consensus does not exist for the most clinically relevant method of measuring fluid balance (FB). While weight change-based FB (FB-W) is standard in neonatal intensive care units, weighing infants after cardiac surgery may be challenging. We aimed to identify characteristics associated with obtaining weights and to understand how intake/output-based FB (FB-IO) and FB-W compare in the early postoperative period in this population. METHODS: Observational retrospective study of 2235 neonates undergoing cardiac surgery from 22 hospitals comprising the NEonatal and Pediatric Heart and Renal Outcomes Network (NEPHRON) database. RESULTS: Forty-five percent (n = 998) of patients were weighed on postoperative day (POD) 2, varying from 2 to 98% among centers. Odds of being weighed were lower for STAT categories 4 and 5 (OR 0.72; 95% CI 0.53-0.98), cardiopulmonary bypass (0.59; 0.42-0.83), delayed sternal closure (0.27; 0.19-0.38), prophylactic peritoneal dialysis use (0.58; 0.34-0.99), and mechanical ventilation on POD 2 (0.23; 0.16-0.33). Correlation between FB-IO and FB-W was weak for every POD 1-6 and within the entire cohort (correlation coefficient 0.15; 95% CI 0.12-0.17). FB-W measured higher than paired FB-IO (mean bias 12.5%; 95% CI 11.6-13.4%) with wide 95% limits of agreement (- 15.4-40.4%). CONCLUSIONS: Weighing neonates early after cardiac surgery is uncommon, with significant practice variation among centers. Patients with increased severity of illness are less likely to be weighed. FB-W and FB-IO have weak correlation, and further study is needed to determine which cumulative FB metric most associates with adverse outcomes. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.
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