Septic shock: a heart story since the 1960s
Septic shock: a heart story since the 1960s
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DOI:
10.1007/s00134-006-0142-5
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发表时间:
2006-06-01
影响因子:
38.9
通讯作者:
Mebazaa, A.
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作者:
Rabuel, C.;Mebazaa, A.
Before the advent of pulmonary arterial catheter two distinct clinical profiles of septic shock had been described [1, 2]. One was characterized by warm, dry skin and a bounding pulse despite hypotension (“warm” shock) and the other by cold skin (“cold” shock). Authors were under the impression that “warm” shock was seen in the initial phase of hospitalization in septic shock patients while “cold” shock was more often observed later, before patients died. Invasive measurements were available in few patients showing that “warm” shock was associated with high cardiac output (CO) and “cold” shock with a low CO (Fig. 1a). It was then concluded that patients in septic shock initially went through an early hyperdynamic phase after the onset of illness and eventually either recovered or deteriorated into heart failure or myocardial depression related to sepsis leading to hypodynamic shock and death [3]. The latter concept was supported by animal models designed by Weil (Fig. 2) using intravenous bolus injections of high doses of endotoxin or live organisms [4, 5](Fig. 1b), showing septic shock characterized by reduced CO and elevated systemic vascular resistance (SVR) leading to animal death (Fig. 1b). However, a concomitant publication by Wilson et al.[6] described septic shock in humans as associated predominantly with normal or elevated CO and very rarely with low CO (Fig. 1c). They were among the first to provide a description of septic shock as having high CO and low SVR, distinguishing it from cardiogenic and hemorrhagic shock that both combined low CO and high SVR. Despite these data the view by Wilson et al. of the nature of cardiovascular dysfunction in septic shock did not become accepted until the widespread use of pulmonary artery thermodilution catheters, allowing measurement of both CO and pulmonary artery wedge pressure. The recognition of inadequate volume resuscitation of patients in septic shock [7] followed, and subsequent studies using pulmonary artery catheter consistently showed that adequately volume-resuscitated patients in septic shock typically manifest a hyperdynamic circulatory state with high CO, decreased SVR, normal stroke volume, and high heart rate [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] even in nonsurvivors [11]. Refined animal models using bolus or chronic endotoxin infusion, cecal ligation, and puncture or infected peritoneal clot implantation found increased CO and low SVR in “resuscitated” animals [13, 14, 15, 16] and low CO in “unresuscitated” animals [17, 18].In summary, the very initial description of “cold” shock associated with low CO in septic shock patients was very likely due to measurements performed in the context of hypovolemia (at least “relative” hypovolemia). It is now generally accepted that after adequate volume loading, severe sepsis and septic shock are often associated with high CO.