Predicting hypotension in perioperative and intensive care medicine

Publication date: Available online 16 April 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical AnaesthesiologyAuthor(s): Bernd Saugel, Karim Kouz, Phillip Hoppe, Kamal Maheshwari, Thomas W.L. ScheerenAbstractBlood pressure is the main determinant of organ perfusion. Hypotension is common in patients having surgery and in critically ill patients. The severity and duration of hypotension is associated with hypoperfusion and organ dysfunction. Hypotension is mostly treated reactively after low blood pressure values have already occurred. However, prediction of hypotension before it becomes clinically apparent would allow the clinician to treat hypotension preemptively thereby reducing the severity and duration of hypotension. Hypotension can now be predicted minutes before it actually occurs from the blood pressure waveform using machine learning algorithms that can be trained to detect subtle changes in cardiovascular dynamics preceding clinically apparent hypotension. However, analyzing the complex cardiovascular system is a challenge because cardiovascular physiology is highly interdependent, works within complicated networks, and is influenced by compensatory mechanisms. Improved hemodynamic data collection and integration will be key to improve current models and develop new hypotension prediction models.
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Anaesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research