Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Intraoperative hypotension when using hypotension prediction index software during major noncardiac surgery: a European multicentre prospective observational registry (EU HYPROTECT)
Authors' conclusion
The median time-weighted average MAP <65 mm Hg was very low in patients in this registry.
Study context
- Population
- Patients having elective major noncardiac surgery in 12 centres in five European countries702 analysed
- Participants
- 749 patients
- Outcome
- Time-weighted average MAP <65 mm Hg
Methodological detailsmulticentre, 12 centres, 5 European countries
- Multicentre
- 12 centres, 5 European countries
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Median time-weighted average MAP <65 mm Hg (range in parentheses as printed)
0.03 (0.00-0.20) mm Hg
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Patients with ≥1 episode of MAP <65 mm Hg lasting ≥1 min
Patients
- At least one ≥1 min episode of MAP <65 mm Hg
- 417 (59%)
- No ≥1 min episode of MAP <65 mm Hg
- 285 (41%)
Number of ≥1 min episodes of MAP <65 mm Hg
- Median number of ≥1 min episodes of MAP <65 mm Hg
- 1 (0-3)
Duration below MAP 65 mm Hg
- Median time spent below MAP 65 mm Hg
- 2 (0-9) min
Original publication
Intraoperative hypotension when using hypotension prediction index software during major noncardiac surgery: a European multicentre prospective observational registry (EU HYPROTECT). BJA Open. Published 4 May 2023. doi:10.
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