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Is body surface area still the best way to determine pump flow rate during cardiopulmonary bypass?

Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, peter.alston{at}ed.ac.uk

Anna Anderson

Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Keith Sanger

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

For over four decades, pump flow rate during cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) has been estimated using body surface area (BSA). As patients presenting for heart surgery are increasingly obese, this approach may no longer be appropriate and other estimates of systemic metabolism should be used, such as body mass index and lean body mass. Mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO₂) is a robust and independent estimate of the global efficacy of CPB. The aim of this study was to determine which factors, including body surface area, body mass index and lean body mass, best predict SvO₂ during CPB.

Forty-eight patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery requiring CPB were studied. Patients’ height, weight and skinfold thickness at four sites (biceps, triceps, subscapularis and suprailiac) were measured. Body surface area, lean body mass and body mass index were then calculated. Pump flow rate was maintained at 2.4 L/min/m² during CPB as per standard unit protocol. Arterial and mixed venous blood samples were taken during the cooling, stable hypothermia and rewarming phases of CPB. Nasopharyngeal temperatures and flow rates were recorded contemporaneously. The blood samples were analysed for oxygen saturation, haemoglobin concentration and partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide. The values of the three time points were meaned. All potential predictor variables were then univariately correlated with mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO₂). Those correlating significantly (p < 0.1) were entered into a multivariate linear regression model. Nasopharyngeal temperature (ß=0.615, p < 0.001) and lean body mass (ß=0.256, p < 0.028) were the only significant predictors of SvO₂ (r ²= 0.433, p < 0.001). Pump flow rates maintained at 2.4 L/min/m² throughout CPB results in relative over-perfusion during hypothermia. Lean body mass may be a more sensitive estimate of systemic metabolism and, therefore, may provide a more accurate means of determining pump flow rate than body surface area in patients undergoing heart surgery.

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