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Core and skin surface temperature course after normothermic and hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass and its impact on extubation time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2006

T. Pezawas ,
A. Rajek  and
W. Plöchl
T. Pezawas
Affiliation:
Medical University of Vienna, Department of Cardiology, Vienna, Austria
A. Rajek
Affiliation:
Medical University of Vienna, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Vienna, Austria
W. Plöchl
Affiliation:
Medical University of Vienna, Department of General Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Vienna, Austria
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Background and objective: Cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with temperature pertubations that influence extubation time. Common extubation criteria demand a minimum value of core temperature only. The aim of this prospective study was to test the hypothesis that changes in core and skin surface temperature are related to extubation time in patients following normothermic and hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. Methods: Forty patients undergoing cardiac surgery were studied; 28 patients had normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (nasopharyngeal temperature >35.5°C) and 12 had hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (28–34°C). In the intensive care unit, urinary bladder temperature and skin surface temperature gradient (forearm temperature minus fingertip temperature: >0°C =vasoconstriction, ≤0°C =vasodilatation) were measured at 30-min intervals for 10 h postoperatively. At the same intervals, the patients were evaluated for extubation according to common extubation criteria. Results: On arrival in the intensive care unit the mean urinary bladder temperature was 36.8 ± 0.5°C in the normothermic group and 36.4±0.3°C in the hypothermic group ( P = 0.014). The skin surface temperature gradient indicated severe vasoconstriction in the both groups. The shift from vasoconstriction to vasodilatation was faster in normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass patients (138±65 min) than in patients after hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (186±61 min, P = 0.034). There was a linear relation between the time to reach a skin surface temperature gradient = 0°C and extubation time (r2 = 0.56, normothermic group; r2 = 0.82, hypothermic group). Conclusions: The transition from peripheral vasoconstriction to vasodilatation is related to extubation time in patients following cardiac surgery under normothermic as well as hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass.

Keywords

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASSCARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURESCRITICAL CAREPOSTOPERATIVE PERIODBODY TEMPERATURE
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EACTA Original Article
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European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 20 - 25
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© 2006 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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