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Editorial| Volume 169, P220-222, December 2021

Optimizing cerebral oxygen delivery after cardiac arrest: A role for neuromonitoring

  • Patrick J. Coppler
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    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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  • Jonathan Elmer
    Correspondence
    Corresponding author at: Iroquois Building, Suite 400A 3600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Affiliations
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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      Restoration and maintenance of end-organ oxygen delivery are fundamental goals of critical care medicine.
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      • Penninckx J.J.
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      Need for oxygen enrichment in myocardial infarction, shock and following cardiac arrest.
      Measuring mixed or central venous oxygen saturation allows the adequacy of systemic oxygen delivery to be estimated. When oxygen delivery is insufficient to meet metabolic demand, the fraction of arterial oxygen extracted and utilized by tissue increases and venous oxygen saturation falls, eventually heralding cellular hypoxia, anaerobic metabolism, and organ damage. While systemic venous saturation monitoring has a biological rationale and face validity, randomized controlled trials have failed to demonstrate benefit to patient centered outcomes.
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      A randomised, controlled trial of the pulmonary artery catheter in critically ill patients.
      This may be explained in part by complexity identifying the correct underlying pathophysiologic cause(s) of abnormal values.
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      Effect of measurement error on calculated variables of oxygen transport.
      Thus, there remains great interest in pushing oxygen monitoring to the level of the end organs that drive clinical outcomes.
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      The microcirculation as a functional system.
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      Moving from macro- to microcirculation in head injury.
      Brain injury is the primary determinant of outcome in comatose patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), and prevention of secondary brain injury may save lives and improve quality of recovery.
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      • Ainslie P.N.
      • Griesdale D.E.
      Clinical pathophysiology of hypoxic ischemic brain injury after cardiac arrest: a “two-hit” model.
      Akin to systemic venous oxygen monitoring, it is possible that insight into the dynamics of cerebral oxygen delivery and consumption can be gained by sampling cerebral venous outflow at the jugular bulb.
      • Macmillan C.S.
      • Andrews P.J.
      Cerebrovenous oxygen saturation monitoring: practical considerations and clinical relevance.

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          We performed a retrospective analysis of our earlier study on cerebral oxygenation monitoring by jugular venous oximetry (SjvO2) in patients of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The study was focused on high SjvO2 values (≥75%) and their association with neurological outcomes and serum neuron-specific enolase (NSE) concentration.
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