• Anesthesiology · Mar 2014

    Observational Study

    Variation of Arterial and Central Venous Catheter Use in United States Intensive Care Units.

    • Hayley B Gershengorn, Allan Garland, Andrew Kramer, Damon C Scales, Gordon Rubenfeld, and Hannah Wunsch.
    • From the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York. Current position: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York (H.B.G.); Section of Critical Care, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (A.G.); Cerner Corporation, Vienna, Virginia (A.K.); Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (D.C.S.); Department of Medicine, University of Toronto School of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (G.R.); and Departments of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York (H.W.).
    • Anesthesiology. 2014 Mar 1; 120 (3): 650-64.

    BackgroundArterial catheters (ACs) and central venous catheters (CVCs) are common in intensive care units (ICUs). Few data describe which patients receive these devices and whether variability in practice exists.MethodsThe authors conducted an observational cohort study on adult patients admitted to ICU during 2001-2008 by using Project IMPACT to determine whether AC and CVC use is consistent across U.S. ICUs. The authors examined trends over time and patients more (mechanically ventilated or on vasopressors) or less (predicted risk of hospital mortality ≤2%) likely to receive either catheter.ResultsOur cohort included 334,123 patients across 122 hospitals and 168 ICUs. Unadjusted AC usage rates remained constant (36.9% [2001] vs. 36.4% [2008]; P = 0.212), whereas CVC use increased (from 33.4% [2001] to 43.8% [2008]; P < 0.001 comparing 2001 and 2008); adjusted AC usage rates were constant from 2004 (35.2%) to 2008 (36.4%; P = 0.43 for trend). Surgical ICUs used both catheters most often (unadjusted rates, ACs: 56.0% of patients vs. 22.4% in medical and 32.6% in combined units, P < 0.001; CVCs: 46.9% vs. 32.5% and 36.4%, P < 0.001). There was a wide variability in AC use across ICUs in patients receiving mechanical ventilation (median [interquartile range], 49.2% [29.9-72.3%]; adjusted median odds ratio [AMOR], 2.56), vasopressors (51.7% [30.8-76.2%]; AMOR, 2.64), and with predicted mortality of 2% or less (31.7% [19.5-49.3%]; AMOR, 1.94). There was less variability in CVC use (mechanical ventilation: 63.4% [54.9-72.9%], AMOR, 1.69; vasopressors: 71.4% (59.5-85.7%), AMOR, 1.93; predicted mortality of 2% or less: 18.7% (11.9-27.3%), AMOR, 1.90).ConclusionsBoth ACs and CVCs are common in ICU patients. There is more variation in use of ACs than CVCs.

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