Multicenter Infection Surveillance Study Following Open Heart Surgery

Halyard Health

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Surgical Site Infection

Surgery

Pneumonia

Treatments

Device: Continuous Sternal Block

Drug: Opioid based analgesia

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT00673712

iflocv2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main goals of the study are as follows: (1) to determine the correlation between pain management using continuous infusion of local anesthetics and the incidence of pneumonia and surgical infection in cardiac surgery patients; and (2) to evaluate the relationship between hospital-acquired pneumonia and surgical infection and patient outcomes, including length of hospital stay.

Full description

Nosocomial infections are recognized as an important cause of increased patient morbidity and mortality. The reported prevalence for nosocomial infections most commonly ranges from 5 to 20%, but can be significantly greater among patients requiring intensive care. The most common sites of hospital acquired infection include the lung, urinary tract, surgical wounds, and the bloodstream. Patients undergoing cardiac surgery appear to be at increased risk for the development of nosocomial infections due to the presence of multiple surgical wounds (chest and lower extremity incisions), frequent postoperative utilization of invasive devices (i.e. central venous catheters, chest drains, intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation, pulmonary artery catheter), and the common use of prophylactic or empiric antibiotics in the perioperative period. In the cardiac surgical postoperative period, nosocomial infections have been found to be associated with prolonged length of stay (LOS) in the ICU and total hospitalization, development of multiorgan dysfunction, and increased hospital mortality. Nosocomial Pneumonia (NP) is in fact the leading cause of mortality due to hospital-acquired infections. Patients with Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) have been found in various studies to have significantly higher mortality rates than those without VAP, with ranges of 20.2-45.5% and 8.5-32.2%, respectively. Strategies that both reduce postoperative pain and sedation have the potential to reduce postoperative pneumonia by allowing earlier extubation and more effective pulmonary toilet post-extubation. Non-opioid pain management has the potential to reduce NP rates because of superior pain management, as well as the reduction in opioids required, and the concomitant avoidance of opioid side effects. The clinical and financial consequences of NP justify aggressively pursuing strategies aimed at prevention. Specifically, these strategies are targeted at reducing the incidence of NP by addressing the modifiable risk factors including prolonged endotracheal intubation and ventilator support, sedation, and long hospital LOS.

Enrollment

647 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Men and women, >18 years of age;
Scheduled for elective cardiac surgical procedure, including coronary revasculari-zation or valve surgery;
Provision of informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Patients with a prior allergic reaction or dependency to morphine, Demerol, Di-laudid, Fentanyl, Marcaine (bupivacaine), lidocaine or Naropin (ropivacaine);
Cardiac transplant patients
Inability to perform follow-up assessments;
Pre-existing infection (pneumonia or surgical site)
Repeat of primary surgery