Reliability of standard pupillometry practice in neurocritical care: an observational, double-blinded study.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:In critical care units, pupil examination is an important clinical parameter for patient monitoring. Current practice is to use a penlight to observe the pupillary light reflex. The result seems to be a subjective measurement, with low precision and reproducibility. Several quantitative pupillometer devices are now available, although their use is primarily restricted to the research setting. To assess whether adoption of these technologies would benefit the clinic, we compared automated quantitative pupillometry with the standard clinical pupillary examination currently used for brain-injured patients. METHODS:In order to determine inter-observer agreement of the device, we performed repetitive measurements in 200 healthy volunteers ranging in age from 21 to 58 years, providing a total of 400 paired (alternative right eye, left eye) measurements under a wide variety of ambient light condition with NeuroLight Algiscan pupillometer. During another period, we conducted a prospective, observational, double-blinded study in two neurocritical care units. Patients admitted to these units after an acute brain injury were included. Initially, nursing staff measured pupil size, anisocoria and pupillary light reflex. A blinded physician subsequently performed measurement using an automated pupillometer. RESULTS:In 200 healthy volunteers, intra-class correlation coefficient for maximum resting pupil size was 0.95 (IC: 0.93-0.97) and for minimum pupil size after light stimulation 0.87 (0.83-0.89). We found only 3-pupil asymmetry (≥ 1 mm) in these volunteers (1.5% of the population) with a clear pupil asymmetry during clinical inspection. The mean pupil light reactivity was 40 ± 7%. In 59 patients, 406 pupillary measurements were prospectively performed. Concordance between measurements for pupil size collected using the pupillometer, versus subjective assessment, was poor (Spearmen's rho = 0.75, IC: 0.70-0.79; P < 0.001). Nursing staff failed to diagnose half of the cases (15/30) of anisocoria detected using the pupillometer device. A global rate of discordance of 18% (72/406) was found between the two techniques when assessing the pupillary light reflex. For measurements with small pupils (diameters <2 mm) the error rate was 39% (24/61). CONCLUSION:Standard practice in pupillary monitoring yields inaccurate data. Automated quantitative pupillometry is a more reliable method with which to collect pupillary measurements at the bedside.

journal_name

Crit Care

authors

Couret D,Boumaza D,Grisotto C,Triglia T,Pellegrini L,Ocquidant P,Bruder NJ,Velly LJ

doi

10.1186/s13054-016-1239-z

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-03-13 00:00:00

pages

99

eissn

1364-8535

issn

1466-609X

pii

10.1186/s13054-016-1239-z

journal_volume

20

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