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The specificity of jugular bulb saturation (SjO2) and arteriovenous oxygen difference (AVDO2) to detect global cerebral ischemia remains controversial. An absolute increase in the arteriovenous difference of carbon dioxide tension (AVDpCO2) and, more specifically, the estimated respiratory quotient (eRQ = AVDpCO2/AVDO2) may indicate anaerobic CO2 production. We compared these variables with SjO2 to predict global cerebral ischemia.
We selected 36 patients from a cohort of 69 consecutive patients suffering from severe traumatic brain injury. All patients had jugular bulb sampling within 6 hours after injury. Brain death at 48 hours was used as a surrogate index of irreversible ischemia to build a receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis.
The mean (± standard deviation) eRQ in the 13 patients who died early (3.7 ± 3.2 mmHg/ml/dl) was higher than the survivors (1.78 ± 0.45 mmHg/ml/dl, P = 0.03). There was no differences in SjO2 between groups. The area under the ROC curves for eRQ, but not that of AVDpCO2, was greater (P = 0.04) than that of SjO2.
The eRQ, more than AVDpCO2, appears to be a potentially more informative index of global cerebral ischemia than SjO2.
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Chieregato, A. et al. (2005). Estimated cerebral respiratory quotient and arteriovenous differences of CO2 in the ultra early detection of global ischemia in severe head injury. In: Poon, W.S., et al. Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring XII. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 95. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-32318-X_15
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