TY - JOUR T1 - A tale of two bridges: effect of the bloodless bridge on renal function and blood pressure in neonates managed with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. AU - Massaro,An N, AU - Rais-Bahrami,Khodayar, AU - Short,Billie Lou, PY - 2009/9/11/entrez PY - 2009/9/11/pubmed PY - 2009/12/16/medline SP - 583 EP - 7 JF - Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies JO - Pediatr Crit Care Med VL - 10 IS - 5 N2 - OBJECTIVE: To investigate if a change in bridge design of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit had an impact on renal function and blood pressure in neonates requiring venoarterial ECMO support. DESIGN: : Retrospective chart review. SETTING: A tertiary care neonatal intensive care unit and ECMO center. PATIENTS: The medical records of neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and treated with venoarterial ECMO were reviewed. Data were collected on 50 consecutive neonates treated previous to (prebridge group) and following (postbridge group) transition to a new bridge design on the ECMO circuit. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Gestational age, gender, racial distribution, and use of hypertensive therapy were similar between the two groups. Daily blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, urine output, fluid balance, and average and maximum systolic and mean arterial blood pressures were recorded for the first 3 days on bypass. The postbridge group had lower maximum mean arterial blood pressure and systolic blood pressure on day 2 of ECMO and lower average mean arterial blood pressure and systolic blood pressure on days 2 and 3 of ECMO. These differences remained significant after controlling for covariates in a multiple regression model. A higher percentage of patients were hypertensive (mean arterial blood pressure >60) in the prebridge group compared with the postbridge group. There were no differences in blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, fluid balance, and urine output between the two groups. CONCLUSIONS: Patients managed on venoarterial ECMO after the transition to the "bloodless" bridge had less hypertension compared with those managed before the bridge change. This may reflect improved maintenance of renal perfusion associated with transition to an ECMO bridge design that does not require intermittent circulation with associated arterial-venous shunting. SN - 1529-7535 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/19741447/A_tale_of_two_bridges:_effect_of_the_bloodless_bridge_on_renal_function_and_blood_pressure_in_neonates_managed_with_venoarterial_extracorporeal_membrane_oxygenation_ L2 - https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181a70418 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -