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ArticleJournal of clinical monitoring and computing2021

The effect of compliance with a perioperative goal-directed therapy protocol on outcomes after high-risk surgery: a before-after study.

M F Boekel, C S Venema, T Kaufmann, I C C van der Horst, J J Vos, T W L Scheeren

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Article in Journal of clinical monitoring and computing, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Goal-directed therapy: what is the goal again?Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2025
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  3. What is new in hemodynamic monitoring and management?Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M F BoekelDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6345-6190
C S VenemaDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6273-9287
T KaufmannDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0589-8879
I C C van der HorstChair of Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3891-8522
J J VosDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, The Netherlands. j.j.vos@umcg.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-0597-6462
T W L ScheerenDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9184-4190
University Medical Center Groningen · NLMaastricht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perioperative goal-directed therapy is considered to improve patient outcomes after high-risk surgery. The association of compliance with perioperative goal-directed therapy protocols and postoperative outcomes is unclear. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of protocol compliance on postoperative outcomes following high-risk surgery, after implementation of a perioperative goal-directed therapy protocol. Through a before-after study design, patients undergoing elective high-risk surgery before (before-group) and after implementation of a perioperative goal-directed therapy protocol (after-group) were included. Perioperative goal-directed therapy in the after-group consisted of optimized stroke volume variation or stroke volume index and optimized cardiac index. Additionally, the association of protocol compliance with postoperative complications when using perioperative goal-directed therapy was assessed. High protocol compliance was defined as ≥ 85% of the procedure time spent within the individual targets. The difference in complications during the first 30 postoperative days before and after implementation of the protocol was assessed. In the before-group, 214 patients were included and 193 patients in the after-group. The number of complications was higher in the before-group compared to the after-group (n = 414 vs. 282; p = 0.031). In the after-group, patients with high protocol compliance for stroke volume variation or stroke volume index had less complications compared to patients with low protocol compliance for stroke volume variation or stroke volume index (n = 187 vs. 90; p = 0.01). Protocol compliance by the attending clinicians is essential and should be monitored to facilitate an improvement in postoperative outcomes desired by the implementation of perioperative goal-directed therapy protocols.

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Fluid TherapyGoalsControlled Before-After StudiesElective Surgical ProceduresHumansPostoperative ComplicationsBefore-after studyHigh-risk surgeryPerioperative goal-directed therapyProtocol compliance

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PMID32920700
PMCPMC7486974
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