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  • article 22 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    HOW CAN WE ESTIMATE SEPSIS INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY?
    (2017) GOBATTO, Andre Luiz Nunes; BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes
    Sepsis is one of the oldest and complex syndromes in medicine that has been in debate for over two millennia. Valid and comparable data on the population burden of sepsis constitute an essential resource for guiding health policy and resource allocation. Despite current epidemiological data suggesting that the global burden of sepsis is huge, the knowledge of its incidence, prevalence, mortality, and case-fatality rates is subject to several flaws. The objective of this narrative review is to assess how sepsis incidence and mortality can be estimated, providing examples on how it has been done so far in medical literature and discussing its possible biases. Results of recent studies suggest that sepsis incidence rates are increasing consistently during the last decades. Although estimates might be biased, this probably reflects a real increase in incidence over time. Nevertheless, case fatality rates have decreased, which is a probable reflex of advances in critical care provision to this very sick population at high risk of death. This conclusion can only be drawn with a reasonable degree of certainty for high-income countries. Conversely, adequately designed studies from middle-and low-income countries are urgently needed. In these countries, sepsis incidence and case-fatality rates could be disproportionally higher due to health care provision constraints and ineffective preventive measures.
  • article 6 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Association of Sepsis Diagnosis at Daytime and on Weekdays with Compliance with the 3-Hour Sepsis Treatment Bundles A Multicenter Cohort Study
    (2020) RANZANI, Otavio T.; MONTEIRO, Mariana Barbosa; BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes
    Rationale: Compliance with sepsis bundles is associated with better outcomes, but information to support structural actions that might improve compliance is scarce. Few studies have evaluated bundle compliance in different time periods, with conflicting results. Objectives: To evaluate the association of sepsis identification during the daytime versus during the nighttime and on weekdays versus weekends with 3-hour sepsis treatment bundle compliance. Methods: This was an observational, multicenter study including patients with sepsis admitted between 2010 and 2017 to 10 hospitals in Brazil. Our exposures of interest were daytime (7:00 A.M.-6:59 P.M.) versus nighttime (7:00 P.M.-6:59 A.M.) and weekdays (Monday 7:00 A.M.-Friday 6:59 P.M.) versus weekends (Friday 7:00 P.M.-Monday 659 A.M.). Our primary outcome was full compliance with the 3-hour sepsis treatment bundles. We adjusted by potential confounding factors with multivariable logistic regression models. Results: Of 11,737 patients (8,733 sepsis and 3,004 septic shock), 3-hour bundle compliance was 79.1% and hospital mortality was 24.7%. The adjusted odds ratio (adjOR) for 3-hour full bundle compliance for patients diagnosed during the daytime versus during the nighttime was 1.35 (95% confidence interval [CI), 1.23-1.49; P < 0.001) and was more pronounced in the emergency department (adjOR, 1.55; 95% CI, 1.35 1.77; P < 0.001) than in nonemergency areas (adjOR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.04-1.37; P = 0.014). Overall, there was no association between diagnosis on the weekends versus on weekdays and 3-hour full bundle compliance (adjOR, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.98-1.19; P = 0.115), although there was an association among those diagnosed in nonemergency areas (adjOR, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.00-1.32; P = 0.047). The lower compliance observed for sepsis diagnosed during the nighttime was more evident 2 years after implementation of the quality improvement initiative. Conclusions: Compliance with sepsis bundles was associated with the moment of sepsis diagnosis. The place of diagnosis and the time from campaign implementation were factors modifying this association. Our results support areas for better design of quality improvement initiatives to mitigate the influence of the period of sepsis diagnosis on treatment compliance.
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    Tratamento do Choque Circulatório
    (2021) BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; GOBATTO, André Luiz Nunes; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes
  • article 43 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Sepsis-3 definitions predict ICU mortality in a low-middle-income country
    (2016) BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; ROMANO, Thiago Gomes; NASSAR JR., Antonio Paulo; TANIGUCHI, Leandro Utino; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes; MENDES, Pedro Vitale; ZAMPIERI, Fernando Godinho; PARK, Marcelo
    Background: Sepsis-3 definitions were published recently and validated only in high-income countries. The aim of this study was to assess the new criteria's accuracy in stratifying mortality as compared to its predecessor (Sepsis-2) in a Brazilian public intensive care unit (ICU) and to investigate whether the addition of lactate values would improve stratification. Methods: Retrospective cohort study conducted between 2010 and 2015 in a public university's 19-bed ICU. Data from patients admitted to the ICU with sepsis were retrieved from a prospectively collected database. ICU mortality was compared across categories of both Sepsis-2 definitions (sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock) and Sepsis-3 definitions (infection, sepsis and septic shock). Area under the receiving operator characteristic curves were constructed, and the net reclassification index and integrated discrimination index for the addition of lactate as a categorical variable to each stratum of definition were evaluated. Results: The medical records of 957 patients were retrieved from a prospectively collected database. Mean age was 52 +/- 19 years, median SAPS 3 was 65 [50,79], respiratory tract infection was the most common cause (42%, 402 patients), and 311 (32%) patients died in ICU. The ICU mortality rate was progressively higher across categories of sepsis as defined by the Sepsis-3 consensus: infection with no organ dysfunction-7 /103 (7%); sepsis-106/419 (25%); and septic shock-198/435 (46%) (P < 0.001). For Sepsis-2 definitions, ICU mortality was different only across the categories of severe sepsis [43/252-(17%)] and septic shock [250/572-(44%)] (P < 0.001); sepsis had a mortality of 18/135(13%) (P = 0.430 vs. severe sepsis). When combined with lactate, the definitions' accuracy in stratifying ICU mortality only improved with lactate levels above 4 mmol/L. This improvement occurred in the severe sepsis and septic shock groups (Sepsis-2) and the no-dysfunction and septic shock groups (Sepsis-3). Multivariate analysis demonstrated similar findings. Conclusions: In a Brazilian ICU, the new Sepsis-3 definitions were accurate in stratifying mortality and were superior to the previous definitions. We also observed that the new definitions' accuracy improved progressively with severity. Serum lactate improved accuracy for values higher than 4 mmol/L in the no-dysfunction and septic shock groups.
  • bookPart
    Tratamento do Choque Circulatório
    (2017) BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; GOBATTO, André Luiz Nunes; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes
  • bookPart
    Apresentação
    (2022) AZEVEDO, Luciano César Pontes de; TANIGUCHI, Leandro Utino; LADEIRA, José Paulo; BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro
  • article 7 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Mechanical ventilation in septic shock
    (2021) BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; TOMAZINI, Bruno Martins; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes
    Purpose of review The aim of this study was to review the most recent literature on mechanical ventilation strategies in patients with septic shock. Recent findings Indirect clinical trial evidence has refined the use of neuromuscular blocking agents, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and recruitment manoeuvres in septic shock patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Weaning strategies and devices have also been recently evaluated. The role of lung protective ventilation in patients with healthy lungs, while recognized, still needs to be further refined. The possible detrimental effects of spontaneous breathing in patients who develop acute respiratory distress syndrome is increasingly recognized, but clinical trial evidence is still lacking to confirm this hypothesis. A new concept of lung and diaphragm protective is emerging in the critical care literature, but its application will need a complex intervention implementation approach to allow adequate scrutiny of this concept and uptake by clinicians. Many advances in the management of the mechanically ventilated patient with sepsis and septic shock have occurred in recent years, but clinical trial evidence is still necessary to translate new hypotheses to the bedside and find the right balance between benefits and risks of these new strategies.
  • article 2 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Caracterização de pacientes transportados com suporte respiratório e/ou cardiovascular extracorpóreo no Estado de São Paulo − Brasil
    (2018) LI, Ho Yeh; MENDES, Pedro Vitale; MELRO, Livia Maria Garcia; JOELSONS, Daniel; BESEN, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro; COSTA, Eduardo Leite Viera; HIROTA, Adriana Sayuri; BARBOSA, Edzangela Vasconcelos Santos; FORONDA, Flavia Krepel; AZEVEDO, Luciano Cesar Pontes; ROMANO, Thiago Gomes; PARK, Marcelo
    ABSTRACT Objective: To characterize the transport of severely ill patients with extracorporeal respiratory or cardiovascular support. Methods: A series of 18 patients in the state of São Paulo, Brazil is described. All patients were consecutively evaluated by a multidisciplinary team at the hospital of origin. The patients were rescued, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support was provided on site. The patients were then transported to referral hospitals for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support. Data were retrieved from a prospectively collected database. Results: From 2011 to 2017, 18 patients aged 29 (25 - 31) years with a SAPS 3 of 84 (68 - 92) and main primary diagnosis of leptospirosis and influenza A (H1N1) virus were transported to three referral hospitals in São Paulo. A median distance of 39 (15 - 82) km was traveled on each rescue mission during a period of 360 (308 - 431) min. A median of one (0 - 2) nurse, three (2 - 3) physicians, and one (0 - 1) physical therapist was present per rescue. Seventeen rescues were made by ambulance, and one rescue was made by helicopter. The observed complications were interruption in the energy supply to the pump in two cases (11%) and oxygen saturation < 70% in two cases. Thirteen patients (72%) survived and were discharged from the hospital. Among the nonsurvivors, there were two cases of brain death, two cases of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and one case of irreversible pulmonary fibrosis. Conclusions: Transportation with extracorporeal support occurred without serious complications, and the hospital survival rate was high.
  • article 23 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    One-year survival and resource use after critical illness: impact of organ failure and residual organ dysfunction in a cohort study in Brazil
    (2015) RANZANI, Otavio T.; ZAMPIERI, Fernando G.; BESEN, Bruno A. M. P.; AZEVEDO, Luciano C. P.; PARK, Marcelo
    Introduction: In this study, we evaluated the impacts of organ failure and residual dysfunction on 1-year survival and health care resource use using Intensive Care Unit (ICU) discharge as the starting point. Methods: We conducted a historical cohort study, including all adult patients discharged alive after at least 72 h of ICU stay in a tertiary teaching hospital in Brazil. The starting point of follow-up was ICU discharge. Organ failure was defined as a value of 3 or 4 in its corresponding component of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, and residual organ dysfunction was defined as a score of 1 or 2. We fit a multivariate flexible Cox model to predict 1-year survival. Results: We analyzed 690 patients. Mortality at 1 year after discharge was 27 %. Using multivariate modeling, age, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, organ dysfunctions and albumin at ICU discharge were the main determinants of 1-year survival. Age and organ failure were non-linearly associated with survival, and the impact of organ failure diminished over time. We conducted a subset analysis with 561 patients (81 %) discharged without organ failure within the previous 24 h of discharge, and the number of residual organs in dysfunction remained strongly associated with reduced 1-year survival. The use of health care resources among hospital survivors was substantial within 1 year: 40 % of the patients were rehospitalized, 52 % visited the emergency department, 90 % were seen at the outpatient clinic, 14 % attended rehabilitation outpatient services, 11 % were followed by the psychological or psychiatric service and 7 % used the day hospital facility. Use of health care resources up to 30 days after hospital discharge was associated with the number of organs in dysfunction at ICU discharge. Conclusions: Organ failure was an important determinant of 1-year outcome of critically ill survivors. Nevertheless, the impact of organ failure tended to diminish over time. Resource use after critical illness was elevated among ICU survivors, and a targeted action is needed to deliver appropriate care and to reduce the late critical illness burden.