TY - JOUR
T1 - Milrinone for cardiac dysfunction in critically ill adult patients
T2 - a systematic review of randomised clinical trials with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis
AU - Koster, Geert
AU - Bekema, Hanneke J.
AU - Wetterslev, Jorn
AU - Gluud, Christian
AU - Keus, Frederik
AU - van der Horst, Iwan C. C.
PY - 2016/9
Y1 - 2016/9
N2 - Milrinone is an inotrope widely used for treatment of cardiac failure. Because previous meta-analyses had methodological flaws, we decided to conduct a systematic review of the effect of milrinone in critically ill adult patients with cardiac dysfunction.This systematic review was performed according to The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Searches were conducted until November 2015. Patients with cardiac dysfunction were included. The primary outcome was serious adverse events (SAE) including mortality at maximum follow-up. The risk of bias was evaluated and trial sequential analyses were conducted. The quality of evidence was assessed by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation criteria.A total of 31 randomised clinical trials fulfilled the inclusion criteria, of which 16 provided data for our analyses. All trials were at high risk of bias, and none reported the primary composite outcome SAE. Fourteen trials with 1611 randomised patients reported mortality data at maximum follow-up (RR 0.96; 95% confidence interval 0.76-1.21). Milrinone did not significantly affect other patient-centred outcomes. All analyses displayed statistical and/or clinical heterogeneity of patients, interventions, comparators, outcomes, and/or settings and all featured missing data.The current evidence on the use of milrinone in critically ill adult patients with cardiac dysfunction suffers from considerable risks of both bias and random error and demonstrates no benefits. The use of milrinone for the treatment of critically ill patients with cardiac dysfunction can be neither recommended nor refuted. Future randomised clinical trials need to be sufficiently large and designed to have low risk of bias.
AB - Milrinone is an inotrope widely used for treatment of cardiac failure. Because previous meta-analyses had methodological flaws, we decided to conduct a systematic review of the effect of milrinone in critically ill adult patients with cardiac dysfunction.This systematic review was performed according to The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Searches were conducted until November 2015. Patients with cardiac dysfunction were included. The primary outcome was serious adverse events (SAE) including mortality at maximum follow-up. The risk of bias was evaluated and trial sequential analyses were conducted. The quality of evidence was assessed by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation criteria.A total of 31 randomised clinical trials fulfilled the inclusion criteria, of which 16 provided data for our analyses. All trials were at high risk of bias, and none reported the primary composite outcome SAE. Fourteen trials with 1611 randomised patients reported mortality data at maximum follow-up (RR 0.96; 95% confidence interval 0.76-1.21). Milrinone did not significantly affect other patient-centred outcomes. All analyses displayed statistical and/or clinical heterogeneity of patients, interventions, comparators, outcomes, and/or settings and all featured missing data.The current evidence on the use of milrinone in critically ill adult patients with cardiac dysfunction suffers from considerable risks of both bias and random error and demonstrates no benefits. The use of milrinone for the treatment of critically ill patients with cardiac dysfunction can be neither recommended nor refuted. Future randomised clinical trials need to be sufficiently large and designed to have low risk of bias.
KW - Milrinone
KW - Systematic review
KW - Heart failure
KW - Trial sequential analysis
KW - CORONARY-ARTERY-BYPASS
KW - ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
KW - LEFT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION
KW - CHRONIC HEART-FAILURE
KW - CUMULATIVE METAANALYSIS
KW - MONITORING BOUNDARIES
KW - INTRAVENOUS MILRINONE
KW - EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE
KW - OUTPUT SYNDROME
KW - SURGERY
U2 - 10.1007/s00134-016-4449-6
DO - 10.1007/s00134-016-4449-6
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27448246
SN - 0342-4642
VL - 42
SP - 1322
EP - 1335
JO - Intensive Care Medicine
JF - Intensive Care Medicine
IS - 9
ER -