Extubation in the Operating Room After Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Extubation in the OR After LDLT

Treatments: Other: endotracheal tube extubation in the operating room

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04963309

05-2021-052

Details and patient eligibility

About

Duration of mechanical ventilation, length of intensive care unit stay, length of postoperative hospital stay, and the incidence rates of complications between the group with endotracheal tube extubation in the operating room (OR-EX) and those without (NOR-EX) in patients who underwent living-donor liver transplantation for end-stage liver failure are going to be compared. Through these results, it is investigated whether endotracheal tube extubation in the operating room is useful in reducing the length of stay in the intensive care unit and the hospital stay after surgery in patients who have undergone living-donor liver transplantation.

Full description

Long-term mechanical ventilation after liver transplantation may increase the risk of complications such as pneumonia, sepsis, and multi-organ failure. Recent advances in surgical techniques and the introduction of short-acting anesthetics have accelerated the recovery of liver transplant recipients, and early extubation after liver transplantation is being proposed as a standard method. The results of a study on early extubation in patients undergoing liver transplantation suggested a reduction in the length of stay in the neutralizer room and predictors of early extubation. However, these studies are limited to males, and there is no study in which the definition of early extubation includes extubation in the operating room or extubation in the operating room within 1-3 hours of arrival in the intensive care unit.

Enrollment: 277 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients 18 years of age or older who underwent living-donor liver transplantation for end-stage liver failure

Exclusion criteria

• A score of 26 or higher on the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scale
• In case of endotracheal intubation when entering the operating room
• If hepatic encephalopathy is stage 3 or higher at the time of admission to the operating room
• When the arterial blood partial pressure (PaO2)/inhaled oxygen fraction (FiO2) ratio is less than 200 on the Arterial Blood Gas Analysis (ABGA) before the end of the living liver transplantation operation
• Preoperative chest X-ray examination or chest computed tomography shows pulmonary edema
• If patients is diagnosed with hepatopulmonary syndrome before surgery

Trial design

277 participants in 2 patient groups

OR-EX

Description:

the group with endotracheal tube extubation in the operating room in patients who underwent living-donor liver transplantation for end-stage liver failure

Treatment:

Other: endotracheal tube extubation in the operating room

NOR-EX

Description:

the group without endotracheal tube extubation in the operating room in patients who underwent living-donor liver transplantation for end-stage liver failure