Hyperinsulinemic Normoglycemia during Cardiac Surgery Reduces a Composite of 30-day Mortality and Serious In-hospital Complications: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Andra E Duncan, Daniel I Sessler, Hiroaki Sato, Tamaki Sato, Keisuke Nakazawa, George Carvalho, Roupen Hatzakorzian, Takumi Codere-Maruyama, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Somnath Bose, Tamer Said, Maria Mendoza-Cuartas, Hyndhavi Chowdary, Edward J Mascha, Dongsheng Yang, A Marc Gillinov, Thomas Schricker
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  1. Andra E Duncan: From the Departments of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia (A.E.D.) Outcomes Research (A.E.D., D.I.S., A.A.-E., S.B., T. Said, M.M.-C., H.C., E.J.M., D.Y.) Quantitative Health Sciences (E.J.M., D.Y.) Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (A.M.G.), Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio the Department of Anesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (H.S., T. Sato, K.N., G.C., R.H., T.C.-M., T. Schricker) Current positions: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin (A.A.-E.) Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (S.B.) Departments of Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio (T. Said) Southern Arizona Anesthesia, Tucson, Arizona (M.M.-C.) the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (H.C.).

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia augments myocardial glucose uptake and utilization. We tested the hypothesis that hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia reduces 30-day mortality and morbidity after cardiac surgery.
METHODS: This dual-center, parallel-group, superiority trial randomized cardiac surgical patients between August 2007 and March 2015 at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, and Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada, to intraoperative glycemic management with (1) hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia, a fixed high-dose insulin and concomitant variable glucose infusion titrated to glucose concentrations of 80 to 110 mg · dl; or (2) standard glycemic management, low-dose insulin infusion targeting glucose greater than 150 mg · dl. The primary outcome was a composite of 30-day mortality, mechanical circulatory support, infection, renal or neurologic morbidity. Interim analyses were planned at each 12.5% enrollment of a maximum 2,790 patients.
RESULTS: At the third interim analysis (n = 1,439; hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia, 709, standard glycemic management, 730; 52% of planned maximum), the efficacy boundary was crossed and study stopped per protocol. Time-weighted average glucose concentration (means ± SDs) with hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia was 108 ± 20 versus 150 ± 33 mg · dl with standard glycemic management, P < 0.001. At least one component of the composite outcome occurred in 49 (6.9%) patients receiving hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia versus 82 (11.2%) receiving standard glucose management (P < efficacy boundary 0.0085); estimated relative risk (95% interim-adjusted CI) 0.62 (0.39 to 0.97), P = 0.0043. There was a treatment-by-site interaction (P = 0.063); relative risk for the composite outcome was 0.49 (0.26 to 0.91, P = 0.0007, n = 921) at Royal Victoria Hospital, but 0.96 (0.41 to 2.24, P = 0.89, n = 518) at the Cleveland Clinic. Severe hypoglycemia (less than 40 mg · dl) occurred in 6 (0.9%) patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative hyperinsulinemic normoglycemia reduced mortality and morbidity after cardiac surgery. Providing exogenous glucose while targeting normoglycemia may be preferable to simply normalizing glucose concentrations.

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MeSH Term

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Blood Glucose
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Female
Glycemic Index
Hospitalization
Humans
Hyperinsulinism
Insulin
Intraoperative Care
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Postoperative Complications

Chemicals

Blood Glucose
Insulin

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