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Table 4 Effect estimates of dynamic arterial elastance for predicting the mean arterial pressure response to fluid expansion

From: Predictive performance of dynamic arterial elastance for arterial pressure response to fluid expansion in mechanically ventilated hypotensive adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

Variables

Subgroups

No. of studies

AUHSROC

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Diagnostic odds ratio

Primary analysis

All studies

8

0.92 (0.89, 0.94)

0.85 (0.71, 0.93)

0.85 (0.69, 0.94)

22.8 (5.5, 93.6)

Classification of patients

ICU patients

5

0.96 (0.94, 0.98)

0.92 (0.75, 0.98)

0.92 (0.82, 0.97)

76.3 (13.0, 448.9)

Surgical patients in the operating room

3

0.72 (0.67, 0.75)

0.69 (0.56, 0.80)

0.66 (0.48, 0.81)

4.5 (1.3, 14.9)

Fluid type

Colloid

4

0.90 (0.87, 0.93)

0.81 (0.60, 0.92)

0.88 (0.58, 0.98)

19.4 (2.2, 174.1)

Crystalloid

4

0.93 (0.90, 0.95)

0.89 (0.65, 0.97)

0.85 (0.62, 0.95)

30.0 (3.4, 248.7)

Measurement technique

Arterial waveform analysis

5

0.92 (0.90, 0.94)

0.85 (0.58, 0.96)

0.87 (0.61, 0.97)

19.1 (2.6, 139.8)

Oesophageal Doppler

2

0.90 (0.87, 0.92)

0.85 (0.66, 0.94)

0.80 (0.49, 0.94)

21.8 (1.0, 458.4)

PICCO

1

–

–

–

–

Sensitivity analyses

Excluding the outlier*

7

0.88 (0.85, 0.91)

0.80 (0.68, 0.89)

0.83 (0.66, 0.92)

15.3 (4.0, 59.2)

Excluding 2 retrospective studies

6

0.94 (0.91, 0.96)

0.88 (0.71, 0.95)

0.87 (0.71, 0.95)

30.1 (6.5, 138.6)

  1. MAP mean arterial pressure, ICU intensive care unit, AUHSROC area under hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic curve, PICCO pulse indicator continuous cardiac output
  2. * The study by Guarracino et al. was identified as the outlier based on a Galbraith plot