COVID-19 recovery: potential treatments for post-intensive care syndrome.
COVID-19 recovery: potential treatments for post-intensive care syndrome.
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10.1016/s2213-2600(20)30457-4
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2020-11
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Parekh D
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Bangash MN;Owen A;Alderman JE;Chotalia M;Patel JM;Parekh D
Comment1072 www. thelancet. com/respiratory Vol 8 November 2020 and studies assessing dose–responses (dose of illness vs response of morbidity) of organ dysfunction and tissue injury, suggest that an adverse long-term reprogramming of multiple organ systems can occur during such critical illness. 1 People who survive lose weight and are debilitated, often with cognitive impairments. A hysteresis of body-mass recovery in different tissue compartments occurs and metabolic control is often disrupted, with the development of type 2 diabetes and adipose gain commonly reported in affected individuals. Organs undergo microscopic damage at the time of acute inflammation and display imperfect repair, with acute kidney injury and cardiovascular dysfunction transitioning to chronic kidney disease and post-ICU major adverse cardiac events. 1 These processes occur in the context of low-grade inflammation and functional immunosuppression, which predisposes individuals who survive admission to ICU, and particularly those with PICS, to secondary infections. 2 Although physical activity counters the proinflammatory effects of sedentarism, enhanced recovery programmes against a backdrop of residual inflammation have not translated to benefit, suggesting a potential role for pharmacological intervention. 3 If prolonged critical illness, including that associated with COVID-19, causes patients to develop chronic inflammation, thrombosis, and fibrosis, antagonists of these processes might be beneficial for survivors. The CANTOS trial showed that major adverse cardiac events, lung cancer, and anaemia rates were reduced in groups with evidence of low-grade inflammation when treated for secondary prevention with the interleukin-1β (IL-1β) monoclonal antibody canakinumab. 4 However, our opinion is that the critical care specialty is not yet in a position to conduct large-scale trials of such powerful anti-inflammatory drugs in ICU survivors. The CANTOS and COLCOT trials showed that reducing IL-1β-related inflammation increases infection risk, an important consideration in the functionally immuno suppressed PICS population. 2 However, other established cardiometabolic therapeutics with good clinical rationale and excellent safety profiles already exist and hold great promise for ICU survivors. These drugs are in a prime position to be trialled immediately in large numbers of patients with COVID-19-associated PICS, and such studies might provide a better understanding of who, if anyone, might benefit from IL-1β targeting. Non-randomised studies suggest that renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors reduce mortality after discharge from the ICU in people who had critical illness with acute kidney injury, whereas preclinical studies suggest a potentially beneficial modulation of frailty in models of ageassociated frailty. 5 The SSCILL trial aims to test whether a RAAS modulator with suspected anti-inflammatory and known antifibrotic effects could be used in this group of patients with PICS to reduce major adverse cardiac events. 6 However, other drugs, including RAAS modulators, should also be trialled while data for PICS biology accumulates. Statin trials in healthy patients with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) and older patients (> 75 years) without atherosclerosis show how reductions in cardiovascular risk, highsensitivity CRP, and rates of pneumonia and deep vein thrombosis can be achieved with low-risk drugs that, among other things, increase concentrations of