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- Title
Early sedation with dexmedetomidine in ventilated critically ill patients and heterogeneity of treatment effect in the SPICE III randomised controlled trial.
- Authors
Shehabi, Yahya; Serpa Neto, Ary; Howe, Belinda D.; Bellomo, Rinaldo; Arabi, Yaseen M.; Bailey, Michael; Bass, Frances E.; Kadiman, Suhaini Bin; McArthur, Colin J.; Reade, Michael C.; Seppelt, Ian M.; Takala, Jukka; Wise, Matt P.; Webb, Steve A.; The SPICE III Study Investigators; Mashonganyika, C.; McKee, H.; Tonks, A.; Donnelly, A.; Hemmings, N.
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>To quantify potential heterogeneity of treatment effect (HTE), of early sedation with dexmedetomidine (DEX) compared with usual care, and identify patients who have a high probability of lower or higher 90-day mortality according to age, and other identified clusters.<bold>Methods: </bold>Bayesian analysis of 3904 critically ill adult patients expected to receive invasive ventilation > 24 h and enrolled in a multinational randomized controlled trial comparing early DEX with usual care sedation.<bold>Results: </bold>HTE was assessed according to age and clusters (based on 12 baseline characteristics) using a Bayesian hierarchical models. DEX was associated with lower 90-day mortality compared to usual care in patients > 65 years (odds ratio [OR], 0.83 [95% credible interval [CrI] 0.68-1.00], with 97.7% probability of reduced mortality across broad categories of illness severity. Conversely, the probability of increased mortality in patients ≤ 65 years was 98.5% (OR 1.26 [95% CrI 1.02-1.56]. Two clusters were identified: cluster 1 (976 patients) mostly operative, and cluster 2 (2346 patients), predominantly non-operative. There was a greater probability of benefit with DEX in cluster 1 (OR 0.86 [95% CrI 0.65-1.14]) across broad categories of age, with 86.4% probability that DEX is more beneficial in cluster 1 than cluster 2.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>In critically ill mechanically ventilated patients, early sedation with dexmedetomidine exhibited a high probability of reduced 90-day mortality in older patients regardless of operative or non-operative cluster status. Conversely, a high probability of increased 90-day mortality was observed in younger patients of non-operative status. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
- Subjects
CRITICALLY ill; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; OLDER patients; BAYESIAN analysis; TREATMENT effectiveness; INTENSIVE care units; RESEARCH; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; EVALUATION research; CATASTROPHIC illness; IMIDAZOLES; ARTIFICIAL respiration; COMPARATIVE studies; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PROBABILITY theory
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2021, Vol 47, Issue 4, p455
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-021-06356-8