• Eur J Anaesthesiol · Sep 2019

    Observational Study

    Colour Doppler ultrasound after major cardiac surgery improves diagnostic accuracy of the pulmonary infection score in acute respiratory failure: A prospective observational study.

    • Pauline Dureau, Adrien Bouglé, Melac Audrey Tanguy AT, Ait Hamou Nora N, Charlotte Arbelot, Kais Ben Hassen, Ahmed Charfeddine, Romain Deransy, Gauthier Arcile, Jean-Jacques Rouby, Benjamin Granger, and Julien Amour.
    • Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2019 Sep 1; 36 (9): 676-682.

    BackgroundPostoperative pneumonia is a frequent complication after cardiac surgery, and its diagnosis is difficult. Little is known about the diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound (LUS) in the detection of pneumonia in cardiac surgical patients. The substitution of chest radiography by colour Doppler LUS (LUS-sCPIS) in the simplified clinical pulmonary infection score (sCPIS) could improve the diagnosis of pneumonia following cardiac surgery.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of LUS-sCPIS and of sCPIS alone in the detection of postoperative pneumonia after cardiac surgery.DesignA prospective study of diagnostic accuracy.SettingA Surgical Intensive Care Unit of a French University Hospital.PatientsFifty-one patients with acute respiratory failure within 72 h after cardiac surgery were enrolled between January and May 2015.Main Outcome MeasureThe two index tests, LUS-sCPIS and sCPIS, were calculated for all patients at the onset of acute respiratory failure. The reference standard for the diagnosis of pneumonia was based on the consensus of three physicians, blind to the sCPIS and LUS-sCPIS data, based on a posthoc review of all the clinical, radiological and microbiological evidence. The diagnostic accuracy of LUS-sCPIS was compared with that of sCPIS in the detection of postoperative pneumonia.ResultsPneumonia was diagnosed in 26 out of 51 patients. The LUS-sCPIS detected the presence of pneumonia with a sensitivity of 92% (95% CI 0.85 to 0.99) and a specificity of 68% (95% CI 0.55 to 0.81). The sCPIS detected the presence of pneumonia with a sensitivity of 35% (95% CI 0.22 to 0.48) and a specificity of 84% (95% CI 0.74 to 0.94). The area under the curve (AUC) of LUS-sCPIS at 0.80 (95% CI 0.69 to 0.91) was higher than the AUC of sCPIS at 0.59 (95% CI 0.47 to 0.71; P = 0.0008).ConclusionCompared with sCPIS, LUS-sCPIS improved diagnostic accuracy in the detection of postoperative pneumonia in patients with acute respiratory failure after cardiac surgery. It could be a useful bedside tool to guide pneumonia management.Trial RegistrationClinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT03279887.

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