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Anesth Analg 1999;88:477
© 1999 International Anesthesia Research Society

CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIA

The Effect of Heart Rate Control on Myocardial Ischemia Among High-Risk Patients After Vascular Surgery

Khether E. Raby, MD, FACC*, Sorin J. Brull, MD{ddagger}, Farris Timimi, MD{dagger}, Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD{dagger}, Stanley Rosenbaum, MD{dagger}, Cameron Naimi, BS{dagger}, and Anthony D. Whittemore, MD{dagger}

*Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; {dagger}Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and {ddagger}Department of Anesthesia, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Khether E. Raby, MD, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Boston Medical Center, 88 East Newton St., Boston, MA, 02118. Address e-mail to Khether.Raby{at}BMC.ORG

Patients undergoing vascular surgery have a high risk of suffering major postoperative cardiac events. Preoperative myocardial ischemia as detected by Holter monitoring identifies a high-risk subgroup whose postoperative ischemia, similarly detected, seems to herald major cardiac events. In this study, we determined whether systematic, patient-specific postoperative heart rate control with ß-adrenergic blocker therapy decreases the incidence of postoperative ischemia among high-risk vascular surgery patients. A total of 26 of 150 patients who underwent elective vascular surgery and were monitored preoperatively by 24-h Holter were found to have significant myocardial ischemia as defined by ST-segment depression. The minimal heart rate at which this ST-segment depression occurred was identified (ischemic threshold), and these 26 patients were then randomized to receive continuous IV ß-blockade with esmolol or placebo plus usual medical therapy, aiming to reduce the postoperative heart rate to 20% below the ischemic threshold. All patients were monitored by Holter for 48 h postoperatively. Postoperative Holter readings were analyzed for the incidence of ischemia and for the number of hours during which heart rate was controlled below the ischemia threshold. Patients had a median of two episodes of preoperative ischemia lasting a median of 30 min (range 1–155 min). A total of 15 patients were randomized to receive esmolol, and 11 were randomized to receive placebo. The two groups were comparable with respect to clinical characteristics and incidence and duration of preoperative ischemia. Ischemia persisted in the postoperative period in 8 of 11 placebo patients (73%), but only 5 of 15 esmolol patients (33%) (P < 0.05). Of the 15 esmolol patients, 9 had mean heart rates below the ischemic threshold, and all 9 had no postoperative ischemia. A total of 4 of 11 placebo patients had mean heart rates below the ischemic threshold, and 3 of the 4 had no postoperative ischemia. There were two postoperative cardiac events among patients who had postoperative ischemia (one placebo, one esmolol) and whose mean heart rates exceeded the ischemic threshold. Our data suggest that patient-specific, strict heart rate control aiming for a predefined target based on individual preoperative ischemic threshold was associated with a significant reduction and frequent elimination of postoperative myocardial ischemia among high-risk patients and provide a rationale for a larger trial to examine this strategy’s effect on cardiac risk.

Implications: Patients who undergo peripheral vascular surgery often experience transient cardiac complications and/or permanent heart damage just after surgery because of inadequate myocardial blood flow. In this study, we identified patients at high risk of cardiac complications after vascular surgery and showed that if their heart rate was carefully controlled for 48 h after surgery, myocardial ischemia, a common marker of heart injury, was markedly reduced.




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