TY - JOUR
T1 - Heart Rate Variability, Clinical and Laboratory Measures to Predict Future Deterioration in Patients Presenting with Sepsis
AU - Barnaby, Douglas P.
AU - Fernando, Shannon M.
AU - Herry, Christophe L.
AU - Scales, Nathan B.
AU - Gallagher, Edward John
AU - Seely, Andrew J.E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - Background:Risk stratification of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with sepsis can be challenging. We derived and evaluated performance of a predictive model containing clinical, laboratory, and heart rate variability (HRV) measures to quantify risk of deterioration in this population.Methods:ED patients aged 21 and older satisfying the 1992 consensus conference criteria for sepsis and able to consent (directly or through a surrogate) were enrolled (n=1,247). Patients had clinical, laboratory, and HRV data recorded within 1 h of ED presentation, and were followed to identify deterioration within 72h.Results:Eight hundred thirty-two patients had complete data, of whom 68 (8%) reached at least one endpoint. Optimal predictive performance was derived from a combination of laboratory values and HRV metrics with an area under the receiver-operating curve (AUROC) of 0.80 (95% CI, 0.65-0.92). This combination of variables was superior to clinical (AUROC=0.69, 95% CI, 0.54-0.83), laboratory (AUROC=0.77, 95% CI, 0.63-0.90), and HRV measures (AUROC=0.76, 95% CI, 0.61-0.90) alone. The HRV+LAB model identified a high-risk cohort of patients (14% of all patients) with a 4.3-fold (95% CI, 3.2-5.4) increased risk of deterioration (incidence of deterioration: 35%), as well as a low-risk group (61% of all patients) with 0.2-fold (95% CI 0.1-0.4) risk of deterioration (incidence of deterioration: 2%).Conclusions:A model that combines HRV and laboratory values may help ED physicians evaluate risk of deterioration in patients with sepsis and merits validation and further evaluation.
AB - Background:Risk stratification of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with sepsis can be challenging. We derived and evaluated performance of a predictive model containing clinical, laboratory, and heart rate variability (HRV) measures to quantify risk of deterioration in this population.Methods:ED patients aged 21 and older satisfying the 1992 consensus conference criteria for sepsis and able to consent (directly or through a surrogate) were enrolled (n=1,247). Patients had clinical, laboratory, and HRV data recorded within 1 h of ED presentation, and were followed to identify deterioration within 72h.Results:Eight hundred thirty-two patients had complete data, of whom 68 (8%) reached at least one endpoint. Optimal predictive performance was derived from a combination of laboratory values and HRV metrics with an area under the receiver-operating curve (AUROC) of 0.80 (95% CI, 0.65-0.92). This combination of variables was superior to clinical (AUROC=0.69, 95% CI, 0.54-0.83), laboratory (AUROC=0.77, 95% CI, 0.63-0.90), and HRV measures (AUROC=0.76, 95% CI, 0.61-0.90) alone. The HRV+LAB model identified a high-risk cohort of patients (14% of all patients) with a 4.3-fold (95% CI, 3.2-5.4) increased risk of deterioration (incidence of deterioration: 35%), as well as a low-risk group (61% of all patients) with 0.2-fold (95% CI 0.1-0.4) risk of deterioration (incidence of deterioration: 2%).Conclusions:A model that combines HRV and laboratory values may help ED physicians evaluate risk of deterioration in patients with sepsis and merits validation and further evaluation.
KW - Critical care
KW - emergency department
KW - heart rate variability
KW - prediction
KW - sepsis
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U2 - 10.1097/SHK.0000000000001192
DO - 10.1097/SHK.0000000000001192
M3 - Article
C2 - 29847498
AN - SCOPUS:85062987376
SN - 1073-2322
VL - 51
SP - 416
EP - 422
JO - Shock
JF - Shock
IS - 4
ER -