Comparison of Goal-directed Algorithms of Hemodynamic Therapy After Combined Valve Repair: a Randomized Clinical Trial

Forty-three adult patients scheduled for elective two valve replacement/repair were enrolled into randomised single-centre study. All interventions were performed in cardiosurgical department of City hospital #1 (Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation) by the same surgical team. Three patients were excluded from the analysis; two - due to protocol violation and one - due to inadequate surgical correction diagnosed by intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiography.

Day before surgery patients were asked for informed consent and randomized in two groups. In the first group postoperative haemodynamic optimization was targeted on parameters provided by pulmonary artery catheter (the PAC-group, n = 20): pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, cardiac index (LifeScope monitor, Nihon Kohden, Japan) and hemoglobin blood level. In the second group haemodynamics was managed using parameters given by transpulmonary thermodilution (the COMPLEX-group), that included cardiac index, global end-diastolic volume index, extravascular lung water index, continuous central venous oxygen saturation, and oxygen delivery index as measured with PiCCO2 monitor (Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany. In addition, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, and hemoglobin concentration were included into both PAC- and PiCCO2-driven protocols.