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J Cardiovasc Thorac Res, 2015, 7(1), 28-31 doi: 10.15171/jcvtr.2014.06 http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/jcvtr

 

Publishing Group TUOMS Original Article

 

Comparison of the Spo2/Fio2 Ratio and the Pao2/Fio2 Ratio in Patients With Acute Lung Injury or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

 

Nemat Bilan, Azar Dastranji*, Afshin Ghalehgolab Behbahani

 

Pediatric Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

 

Article info

 

Article History:

 

Received: 2 August 2014

 

Accepted: 12 February 2015

 

Keywords: ARDS ALI

 

Pao2/Fio2

 

Pulse Oximetry

 

Abstract

 

Introduction: Diagnostic criteria for acute lung injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress syndrome (ARDS) includes acute onset of disease, chest radiograph demonstrating bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, lack of significant left ventricular dysfunction and Pao2/Fio2 (PF) ratio ≤300 for ALI or ≤200 for ARDS. Recent criteria require invasive arterial sampling. The pulse oximetric saturation Spo2/Fio2 (SF) ratio may be a reliable non-invasive alternative to the PF ratio.

 

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we enrolled 70 patients with ALI or ARDS who were admitted in Tabriz children’s hospital pediatrics intensive care unit (PICU). Spo2, Fio2, Pao2, charted within 5 minutes of each other and calculated SF and PF were recorded to determine the relationship between SF and PF ratio. SF values were examined as a substitute of PF ratio for diagnosis ARDS and ALI.

 

Results: The relationship between SF and PF ratio was described by the following regression equation: SF=57+0.61 PF (P<0.001). SF ratios of 181 and 235 corresponded of PF ratio 300 and 200. The SF cutoff of 235 had 57% sensitivity and 100% specificity for diagnosis of ALI. The SF cutoff of 181 had 71% sensitivity and 82% specificity for diagnosis of ARDS.

 

Conclusion: SF ratio is a reliable noninvasive surrogate for PF ratio to identify children with ALI or ARDS with the advantage of replacing invasive arterial blood sampling by non-invasive pulse oximetry.

 

Introduction

Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are grave syndromes associated with high mortality and morbidity.1,2 It is estimated that 30% to 60% of all patients admitted to pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) require mechanical ventilation, and of these patients up to 25% suffer ALI and 5% to 10% have ARDS. With the implementation of lung-protective ventilation strategies, overall morbidity and mortality have improved significantly for both adult and children with ALI and ARDS.3,4 Based on American European Consensus Conference (AECC) in 1994, diagnostic criteria for ALI and ARDS require acute onset of disease, chest radiograph demonstrating bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, lack of significant left ventricular dysfunction and arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxid/Fraction of inspiratory oxygen (Pao2/Fio2) (PF) ratio ≤300 for ALI or ≤200 for ARDS.5

 

The first three components can be established with clinical history or noninvasively tools such as chest radiograph or echocardiography. However PF criteria require arterial blood sampling.6,7 Concerns about anemia following repeated blood sampling and tendency to implement less

 

invasive approaches have led to less frequent blood gas measurements in critically ill patients.8-9 However studies in ARDS and ALI patients are lacking. Furthermore SF threshold values could be used for diagnosing ARDS and ALI.6-10

 

Pulse oximetry is the most commonly utilized technique to monitor oxygenation which is non-invasive and safe. In this method arterial hemoglobin O2 saturation is measured by differentiating oxy hemoglobin form deoxygenated hemoglobin using their respective light absorption at wave lengths of 660 nm (red) and 940 nm (infra red).11,12 Pulse oximetry is used for detection of hypoxia, prevention of hyperoxia, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and for titration of Fio2.9-13

 

In most PICUs daily arterial blood sampling to calculate the PF ratio is not feasible. Calculation of SF ratio as a surrogate for PF ratio for diagnose ARDS or ALI, which is less-invasive, is desirable.14 SF ratio determines the degree of hypoxemia non invasively without the need for arterial blood sampling.7

 

In this study, we examined the relationship between SF and PF ratio in critically ill patients with ALI and ARDS.

*Corresponding author: Azar Dastranji, Email: dastranji61@gmail.com

© 2015 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

Acute lung injury and Spo2/Fio2 Ratio

 

It is presumed that the more available and less invasive SF ratio measurement can replace PF ratio measurement in the diagnosis of ALI and ARDS.

 

Materials and methods

In this cross-sectional study 70 children with ARDS or ALI who were admitted in Tabriz children’s hospital PICU, Iran between 2012 and 2013 were enrolled. In patients with ARDS or ALI who were intubated and under mechanical ventilation with same Fio2; Pao2 was measured with arterial blood sampling and Spo2 was measured with pulse oximetry and charted within 5 min. SF and PF ratio were then calculated.

 

Inclusion criteria were children with ARDS or ALI and acute onset of disease and chest radiograph demonstrating bilateral pulmonary infiltrates , consistent with pulmonary edema.

 

Exclusion criteria were children with pulmonary edema due to heart failure and congenital heart disease and anatomic anomalies of lung or air ways and hypotension and weak pulses.

 

Statistical analysis

 

Statistical analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 17.0 (SPSS, Chicago, Illinois). Quantitative data were presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD), while qualitative data were demonstrated as frequency and percent (%). The categorical parameters were compared by χ2 tests, and the continuous variables were compared by independent

 

Results

Of 70 children enrolled in this study, 38 patients were female (54.3%) and 32 patients were male (45.7%) . Mean age of study population was 32+ 5 months (minimum 2 and maximum 144 months).

 

A total of 70 data pairs 56 (80%) met the PF ratio criteria for ARDS and 14 (20%) met the PF criteria for ALI. The median time difference between charted values of Spo2 and Pao2 pairs was 5 minutes.

 

Table 1 demonstrates baseline findings of the patients enrolled in the study.

 

Age had no significant relationship with either SF ratio (P = 0.81) or PF ratio (P =0.99). Similarly, gender did not have a significant relationship with either SF ratio (P = 0.77) or PF ratio (P =0.06).

 

In general, SF ratio could be predicted well from PF ratio, described by the linear regression equation (SF =57+0.61 PF). Based on this equation a PF ratio of 300 corresponds to an SF ratio of 235 and PF ratio of 200 to an SF ratio of 181 [P <0.001 (Figure 1)]. The SF cut off of 235 had 57% sensitivity and 100% specificity for the diagnosis of ALI and cut off of 181 had 71% sensitivity and 82% specificity for the diagnosis of ARDS. SF ratio had excellent discrimination ability for ARDS (AUC=0.86) (Figure 2) and good discrimination ability for ALI and ARDS (AUC=0.89) (Figure 3).

 

Discussion

ALI and ARDS are major contributors to morbidity and mortality for patients admitted to PICU.15 The routine use of pulse oximetry and capnography have led to less frequent arterial blood gas sampling. In most PICUs, pulse oximetry is readily available and is being used routinely for continuous monitoring of oxygenation status.16-18 Pulse

 

Table 1. Base line findings of the patients

 

 Max-MinMean±SD
Pao2/ Fio2298-46155±61
Spo2/Fio2248-77152±47
Spo299-7194±4
Fio2100-4067±18
Pao2176-4196±25
Age144-232±5

 300

250 200

 

t test. A P <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Relationship between SF and PF, described by linear regression equation. ROC curves were plotted to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the SF threshold values correlating with PF of 200 (ARDS) and 300 (ALI).

 

Figure 1. S/F ratio vs P/F ratio scatter plot for the derivation data set. The line represents the best fit linear relationship SF=57+0.61PF (P<0.001).

 

Figure 2. ROC curves for S/F vs P/F ratios of ≤200 (ARDS).

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Figure 3. ROC curves for S/F vs. P/F ratios of ≤ 200 (ARDS) and
S/F vs. P/F ratios of ≤ 300 (ALI) for the derivation data set

 

oximetry circumvents the harms and costs of arterial blood sampling.19 Using SF ratio for diagnosing ALI and ARDS leads to identification of undiagnosed cases of aforementioned syndromes.20
SF ratio may be useful in many organ failure scores, such as lung injury scores21, multi organ dysfunction score22, sequential organ failure assessment23, as an alternative to PF ratio to estimate the degree of hypoxemia. In this study we enrolled 70 patients with ALI or ARDS. Pao2 and Spo2 were measured with the same Fio2 and SF and PF ratio were calculated. The relationship between SF and PF ratio was described with the following equation: SF=57+0.61 PF. SF ratio threshold values for ALI was 235 and for ARDS was 181 corresponding to PF ratio


300 and 200. A similar study was conducted by Khemani et al.24 on pediatric population. They report that a cut-off of 201 for SF could predict PF for ARDS with 84% sensitivity and 78% specificity and a cut-off of 263 for SF could predict ALI with 93% sensitivity and 43% specificity. However, they didn’t have age limitation. Also the time interval between pulse oximetry and arterial blood sampling was 15 minutes which is longer that our study. They did not examine the relationship between SF and PF ratio with sex and gender. In adult patients, Rice et al.25 report that a cut-off 235 for SF could predict ARDS with 85% sensitivity and 85% specificity and cut-off of 315 for SF could predict ALI with 91% sensitivity and 56 % specificity. In this study, we examined the relationship between age and gender with PF and SF ratio. We measured Pao2 and Spo2 in maximum 5 minutes apart. The SF ratio thresholds determined in this study were based on the PF ratio which is proposed by the AECC. There are limitations to this study. First, ABG and pulse oximetry measurements were not simultaneous. Given that changes in Spo2 and Pao2 can take place quickly, this could affect our results. In addition we did not control for PH, hemoglobin, Paco2 , body temperature, ventilator set up. These factors also could influence the relationship
between Spo2 and Pao2.


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Competing interests

 

Authors declare no conflict of interests in this study.

 

Conclusion

 

According to this study SF ratio is a reliable non invasive and readily available marker for PF ratio for the diagnosis of children with ALI or ARDS which replaces arterial blood sampling by pulse oximetry. Considering complications of arterial blood sampling such as anemia, and bleeding in critical care patients, pulse oximetry is a

 

Figure 3. ROC curves for S/F vs. P/F ratios of ≤ 200 (ARDS) and S/F vs. P/F ratios of ≤ 300 (ALI) for the derivation data set.

 

oximetry circumvents the harms and costs of arterial blood sampling.19 Using SF ratio for diagnosing ALI and ARDS leads to identification of undiagnosed cases of aforementioned syndromes.20

 

SF ratio may be useful in many organ failure scores, such as lung injury scores21, multi organ dysfunction score22, sequential organ failure assessment23, as an alternative to PF ratio to estimate the degree of hypoxemia.

In this study we enrolled 70 patients with ALI or ARDS. Pao2 and Spo2 were measured with the same Fio2 and SF and PF ratio were calculated. The relationship between SF and PF ratio was described with the following equation: SF=57+0.61 PF. SF ratio threshold values for ALI was

 

235 and for ARDS was 181 corresponding to PF ratio 300 and 200.

 

A similar study was conducted by Khemani et al.24 on pediatric population. They report that a cut-off of 201 for SF could predict PF for ARDS with 84% sensitivity and 78% specificity and a cut-off of 263 for SF could predict ALI with 93% sensitivity and 43% specificity. However, they didn’t have age limitation. Also the time interval between pulse oximetry and arterial blood sampling was 15 minutes which is longer that our study. They did not examine the relationship between SF and PF ratio with sex and gender.

 

In adult patients, Rice et al.25 report that a cut-off 235 for SF could predict ARDS with 85% sensitivity and 85% specificity and cut-off of 315 for SF could predict ALI with 91% sensitivity and 56 % specificity. In this study, we examined the relationship between age and gender with PF and SF ratio. We measured Pao2 and Spo2 in maximum 5 minutes apart. The SF ratio thresholds determined in this study were based on the PF ratio which is proposed by the AECC.

 

There are limitations to this study. First, ABG and pulse oximetry measurements were not simultaneous. Given that changes in Spo2 and Pao2 can take place quickly, this could affect our results. In addition we did not control for PH, hemoglobin, Paco2, body temperature, ventilator set up. These factors also could influence the relationship between Spo2and Pao2.

 

desirable replacement for arterial blood sampling.

 

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