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The association between early impairment in cerebral autoregulation and outcome in a pediatric swine model of cardiac arrest.

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Aims

Evaluate cerebral autoregulation (CAR) by intracranial pressure reactivity index (PRx) and cerebral blood flow reactivity index (CBFx) during the first four hours following return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in a porcine model of pediatric cardiac arrest. Determine whether impaired CAR is associated with neurologic outcome.

Methods

Four-week-old swine underwent seven minutes of asphyxia followed by ventricular fibrillation induction and hemodynamic-directed CPR. Those achieving ROSC had arterial blood pressure, intracranial pressure (ICP), and microvascular cerebral blood flow (CBF) monitored for 4 h. Animals were assigned an 8 -h post-ROSC swine cerebral performance category score (1 = normal; 2-4=abnormal neurologic function). In this secondary analytic study, we calculated PRx and CBFx using a continuous, moving correlation coefficient between mean arterial pressure (MAP) and ICP, and between MAP and CBF, respectively. Burden of impaired CAR was the area under the PRx or CBFx curve using a threshold of 0.3 and normalized as percentage of monitoring duration.

Results

Among 23 animals, median PRx was 0.14 [0.06,0.25] and CBFx was 0.36 [0.05,0.44]. Median burden of impaired CAR was 21% [18,27] with PRx and 30% [17,40] with CBFx. Neurologically abnormal animals (n = 10) did not differ from normal animals (n = 13) in post-ROSC MAP (63 vs. 61 mmHg, p = 0.74), ICP (15 vs. 14 mmHg, p = 0.78) or CBF (274 vs. 397 Perfusion Units, p = 0.12). CBFx burden was greater among abnormal than normal animals (45% vs. 24%, p = 0.001), but PRx burden was not (25% vs. 20%, p = 0.38).

Conclusion

CAR is impaired early after ROSC. A greater burden of CAR impairment measured by CBFx was associated with abnormal neurologic outcome.CHOP Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee protocol 19-001327.

SUBMITTER: Kirschen MP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244245 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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