Clinical and Risk Analytics Associations With Extubation Failure in Children Following Congenital Cardiac Surgery: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study, 2017-2020

  • Daniel L. Hames
  • , Qalab Abbas
  • , Ahmed Asfari
  • , Santiago Borasino
  • , J. Wesley Diddle
  • , Yuanyuan Fu
  • , Avihu Z. Gazit
  • , Stuart Lipsitz
  • , Amanda M. Marshall
  • , Katherine Reise
  • , Luciana Rodriguez Guerineau
  • , Joshua S. Wolovits
  • , Joshua W. Salvin

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The use of risk analytics indices alongside clinical factors has potential to assist clinicians in identifying children at high risk for extubation failure (EF). We investigated the association of two physiologic risk analytics indices with EF in children receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) after cardiac surgery: the probability of inadequate oxygen delivery (IDo2) and inadequate ventilation of carbon dioxide index (IVco2). A secondary aim was to evaluate clinical factors associated with EF. DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Eight international pediatric cardiac ICUs. PATIENTS: Children between 1 month and 12 years old receiving MV for greater than 48 hours following cardiac surgery between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2020. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Nine hundred twenty-two children were analyzed with 79 (8.6%) having EF (defined as reintubation within 48 hr). In multivariable analysis of clinical variables, preoperative MV (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.78; 95% CI, 1.08-2.96; p = 0.03), receiving inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) at extubation (aOR, 2.22; 95% CI, 1.13-4.35; p = 0.02), and duration of postoperative MV (aOR, 1.03; 95% CI, 1.00-1.06; p = 0.03) were independently associated with EF. Seven hundred ninety-two patients (86%) had pre-extubation IDo2 data, 602 (65%) had pre-extubation IVco2 data, and 600 (65%) had both pre-extubation IDo2 and IVco2 data available. In multivariable analysis including these risk analytics algorithms, patients with either IDo2 greater than or equal to 5 or IVco2 greater than or equal to 50 before extubation had higher odds of EF (aOR, 2.06; 95% CI, 1.08-3.94; p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: The addition of risk analytics algorithms evaluating the probability of inadequate systemic oxygen delivery or inadequate ventilation to clinical factors (duration of ventilation or iNO delivery at extubation) is useful in assessing the risk for EF in children recovering from cardiac surgery.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)e1105-e1114
JournalPediatric Critical Care Medicine
Volume26
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2025

Keywords

  • cardiac surgery
  • congenital heart disease
  • extubation failure
  • postoperative care
  • risk analytics

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