Clinical applicability of the substitution of mixed venous oxygen saturation with central venous oxygen saturation

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 574-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simru Turnaoğlu ◽  
Mehmet Tuğrul ◽  
Emre Çamci ◽  
Nahit Çakar ◽  
Özkan Akinci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Central Venous Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Central Venous ◽  
Clinical Applicability ◽  
Venous Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Mixed Venous

Trends but Not Individual Values of Central Venous Oxygen Saturation Agree with Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation during Varying Hemodynamic Conditions

2005 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Dueck ◽  
Markus Klimek ◽  
Stefan Appenrodt ◽  
Christoph Weigand ◽  
Ulf Boerner
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Vena Cava ◽  
Central Venous Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Central Venous ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Venous Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Statistical Approaches ◽  
Mixed Venous

Background Previous studies found contradictory results regarding the question whether mixed venous oxygen saturation (Svo2) and central venous oxygen saturation (Scvo2) are equivalent. The inconsistency of study results may result from different study designs and different, partly questionable, statistical approaches. Methods The authors performed a prospective clinical trial comparing individual oxygen saturation values as well as the trend of values in blood from the superior vena cava (Scvo2), the right atrium (Srao2), and the pulmonary artery (Svo2) during varying hemodynamic situations. The subjects were 70 patients scheduled to undergo elective neurosurgical operations in the sitting position. Oxygen saturation was measured photospectrometrically in blood samples simultaneously taken at four different time points during supine and sitting positions. Statistical analysis was performed following the recommendations of Bland and Altman. Results Five hundred two comparative sets of measurements were obtained. Ninety-five percent limits of agreement ranging from +/-6.83 to +/-9.30% for single values were interpreted as clinically unacceptable. In contrast, correlations between changes of Svo2 and Scvo2 as well as of Svo2 and Srao2 were interpreted as clinically acceptable (R > or = 0.755, Pearson correlation coefficient; P < or = 0.0001). Conclusions In this sample of patients, exact numerical values of Scvo2 and Srao2 are not equivalent to those of Svo2 in varying hemodynamic conditions. However, for clinical purposes, the trend of Scvo2 may be substituted for the trend of Svo2. In addition, previous studies investigating the agreement between Svo2 and Scvo2 were found to be lacking in their chosen statistical approaches.

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