PURPOSE: The objective of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of internal jugular vein (IJV) collapsibility as a predictor of fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing patients after cardiac surgery. METHODS: In this prospective observational study, spontaneously breathing patients were enrolled on the first postoperative day after coronary artery bypass grafting. Hemodynamic data coupled with simultaneous ultrasound assessment of the IJV were collected at baseline and after passive leg raising test (PLR). Continuous cardiac index (CI), stroke volume (SV), and stroke volume variation (SVV) were assessed with FloTracTM/EV1000TM. Fluid responsiveness was defined as an increase in CI ≥ 10% after PLR. We compared the differences in measured variables between fluid responders and non-responders and tested the ability of ultrasonographic IJV indices to predict fluid responsiveness. RESULTS: Fifty-four patients were included in the study. Seventeen (31.5%) were fluid responders. The responders demonstrated significantly lower inspiratory and expiratory diameters of the IJV at baseline, but IJV collapsibility was comparable (P = 0.7). Using the cut-off point of 20%, IJV collapsibility predicted fluid responsiveness with a sensitivity of 76.5% and specificity of 38.9%, ROC AUC 0.55. CONCLUSION: In spontaneously breathing patients after surgical coronary revascularisation, collapsibility of the internal jugular vein did not predict fluid responsiveness.

1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague Prague 12808 Czechia

Department of Anaesthesia Antrim Area Hospital Antrim BT41 2RL UK

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague and General University Hospital Prague Prague 12808 Czech Republic

Department of Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation 3rd Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague and University Hospital Královské Vinohrady Prague Prague 10034 Czechia

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