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  • Title: High central venous-to-arterial CO2 difference/arterial-central venous O2 difference ratio is associated with poor lactate clearance in septic patients after resuscitation.
    Author: He HW, Liu DW, Long Y, Wang XT.
    Journal: J Crit Care; 2016 Feb; 31(1):76-81. PubMed ID: 26640138.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Recently, the central venoarterial carbon dioxide difference/arterial-central venous oxygen difference (P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2) ratio has been suggested as an additional indicator of anaerobic metabolism. We investigated the relationship between the P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 ratio and 8-hour lactate clearance (LC) in septic patients after resuscitation. METHODS AND RESULTS: We prospectively obtained 168 sets of measurements from 84 septic patients. The arterial and central venous blood gases were measured simultaneously at enrollment and 8 hours after resuscitation. The P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 (r = -0.24, P = .028) at T8 was negatively correlated with 8-hour LC after resuscitation in all patients. The patients with 8-hour LC ≥ 10% exhibited significantly lower P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 ratios and intensive care unit mortality after resuscitation than the patients with 8-hour LC < 10%. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 ratio for the detection of LC ≥ 10% was the greatest and was significantly better than that of the central venous oxygen saturation and similar to that of the P(v-a)CO2. Moreover, a P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 < 1.23 at T8 is related to poor 8-hour LC rate (LC ≥ 10%) in the patients with normalized central venous oxygen saturation values (≥70%) after resuscitation. CONCLUSIONS: The high P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 ratio is associated with poor LC after resuscitation. The P(v-a)CO2/C(a-v)O2 ratio may provide useful information for assessing the LC potential and optimizing the LC rate.
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