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Correa 2012 Crit Care Med

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Corrêa TD, Vuda M, Blaser AR, Takala J, Djafarzadeh S, Dünser MW, Silva E, Lensch M, Wilkens L, Jakob SM (2012) Effect of treatment delay on disease severity and need for resuscitation in porcine fecal peritonitis. Crit Care Med 40:2841-9.

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Correa TD, Vuda M, Blaser AR, Takala J, Djafarzadeh S, Duenser MW, Silva E, Lensch M, Wilkens L, Jakob SM (2012) Crit Care Med

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Early treatment in sepsis may improve outcome. The aim of this study was to evaluate how the delay in starting resuscitation influences the severity of sepsis and the treatment needed to achieve hemodynamic stability.

DESIGN: Prospective, randomized, controlled experimental study.

SETTING: Experimental laboratory in a university hospital.

SUBJECTS: Thirty-two anesthetized and mechanically ventilated pigs.

INTERVENTIONS: Pigs were randomly assigned (n=8 per group) to a nonseptic control group or one of three groups in which fecal peritonitis (peritoneal instillation of 2 g/kg autologous feces) was induced, and a 48-hr period of protocolized resuscitation started 6 (ΔT-6 hrs), 12 (ΔT-12 hrs), or 24 (ΔT-24 hrs) hrs later. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of delays in resuscitation on disease severity, need for resuscitation, and the development of sepsis-associated organ and mitochondrial dysfunction.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Any delay in starting resuscitation was associated with progressive signs of hypovolemia and increased plasma levels of interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α prior to resuscitation. Delaying resuscitation increased cumulative net fluid balances (2.1±0.5 mL/kg/hr, 2.8±0.7 mL/kg/hr, and 3.2±1.5 mL/kg/hr, respectively, for groups ΔT-6 hrs, ΔT-12 hrs, and ΔT-24 hrs; p<.01) and norepinephrine requirements during the 48-hr resuscitation protocol (0.02±0.04 μg/kg/min, 0.06±0.09 μg/kg/min, and 0.13±0.15 µg/kg/min; p=.059), decreased maximal brain mitochondrial complex II respiration (p=.048), and tended to increase mortality (p=.08). Muscle tissue adenosine triphosphate decreased in all groups (p<.01), with lowest values at the end in groups ΔT-12 hrs and ΔT-24 hrs.

CONCLUSIONS: Increasing the delay between sepsis initiation and resuscitation increases disease severity, need for resuscitation, and sepsis-associated brain mitochondrial dysfunction. Our results support the concept of a critical window of opportunity in sepsis resuscitation.


O2k-Network Lab: CH Bern Djafarzadeh S


Labels: MiParea: Respiration  Pathology: Sepsis 

Organism: Pig  Tissue;cell: Heart, Skeletal muscle, Nervous system, Liver  Preparation: Permeabilized tissue, Isolated mitochondria 


Coupling state: LEAK, OXPHOS, ET  Pathway: N, S, CIV, NS  HRR: Oxygraph-2k