TY - JOUR
T1 - Higher versus lower oxygenation targets in adult ICU patients
T2 - A rapid practice guideline
AU - Møller, Morten Hylander
AU - Granholm, Anders
AU - Al Duhailib, Zainab
AU - Alhazzani, Waleed
AU - Belley-Cote, Emilie
AU - Oczkowski, Simon
AU - Vijayaraghavan, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi
AU - Sjövall, Fredrik
AU - Butler, Ethan
AU - Zampieri, Fernando G.
AU - Mac Sweeney, Rob
AU - Derde, Lennie P.G.
AU - Ruzycki-Chadwick, Ally
AU - Mer, Mervyn
AU - Burns, Karen E.A.
AU - Ergan, Begüm
AU - Al-Fares, Abdulrahman
AU - Sjoding, Michael W.
AU - Valley, Thomas S.
AU - Rasmussen, Bodil S.
AU - Schjørring, Olav L.
AU - Prescott, Hallie C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica Foundation.
PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - The aim of this Intensive Care Medicine Rapid Practice Guideline (ICM-RPG) was to provide evidence-based clinical guidance about the use of higher versus lower oxygenation targets for adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). The guideline panel comprised 27 international panelists, including content experts, ICU clinicians, methodologists, and patient representatives. We adhered to the methodology for trustworthy clinical practice guidelines, including the use of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation approach to assess the certainty of evidence, and used the Evidence-to-Decision framework to generate recommendations. A recently published updated systematic review and meta-analysis constituted the evidence base. Through teleconferences and web-based discussions, the panel provided input on the balance and magnitude of the desirable and undesirable effects, the certainty of evidence, patients' values and preferences, costs and resources, equity, feasibility, acceptability, and research priorities. The updated systematic review and meta-analysis included data from 17 randomized clinical trials with 10,248 participants. There was little to no difference between the use of higher versus lower oxygenation targets for all outcomes with available data, including all-cause mortality, serious adverse events, stroke, functional outcomes, cognition, and health-related quality of life (very low certainty of evidence). The panel felt that values and preferences, costs and resources, and equity favored the use of lower oxygenation targets. The ICM-RPG panel issued one conditional recommendation against the use of higher oxygenation targets: “We suggest against the routine use of higher oxygenation targets in adult ICU patients (conditional recommendation, very low certainty of evidence). Remark: an oxygenation target of SpO2 88%–92% or PaO2 8 kPa/60 mmHg is relevant and safe for most adult ICU patients.”.
AB - The aim of this Intensive Care Medicine Rapid Practice Guideline (ICM-RPG) was to provide evidence-based clinical guidance about the use of higher versus lower oxygenation targets for adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). The guideline panel comprised 27 international panelists, including content experts, ICU clinicians, methodologists, and patient representatives. We adhered to the methodology for trustworthy clinical practice guidelines, including the use of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation approach to assess the certainty of evidence, and used the Evidence-to-Decision framework to generate recommendations. A recently published updated systematic review and meta-analysis constituted the evidence base. Through teleconferences and web-based discussions, the panel provided input on the balance and magnitude of the desirable and undesirable effects, the certainty of evidence, patients' values and preferences, costs and resources, equity, feasibility, acceptability, and research priorities. The updated systematic review and meta-analysis included data from 17 randomized clinical trials with 10,248 participants. There was little to no difference between the use of higher versus lower oxygenation targets for all outcomes with available data, including all-cause mortality, serious adverse events, stroke, functional outcomes, cognition, and health-related quality of life (very low certainty of evidence). The panel felt that values and preferences, costs and resources, and equity favored the use of lower oxygenation targets. The ICM-RPG panel issued one conditional recommendation against the use of higher oxygenation targets: “We suggest against the routine use of higher oxygenation targets in adult ICU patients (conditional recommendation, very low certainty of evidence). Remark: an oxygenation target of SpO2 88%–92% or PaO2 8 kPa/60 mmHg is relevant and safe for most adult ICU patients.”.
KW - clinical practice guideline
KW - ICM-RPG
KW - Intensive Care Medicine Rapid Practice Guideline
KW - oxygenation target
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85180730352&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/aas.14366
DO - 10.1111/aas.14366
M3 - Article
C2 - 38140827
SN - 0001-5172
VL - 68
SP - 302
EP - 310
JO - Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
JF - Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
IS - 3
ER -