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Beating Heart Versus Conventional Cardiopulmonary Bypass: The Octopus Experience: A Randomized Comparison of 281 Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery With or Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass

University Medical Center Utrecht, Departments of Anesthesiology, d.vandijk{at}umcutrecht.nl

Jan C. Diephuis, MD

The Netherlands; the Medisch Spectrum Hospital, Departmen of Anesthesiology

Arno P. Nierich, MD

The Netherlands; and the Isala Clinics, Department of Thoracic Anesthesiology

Annemieke M. A. Keizer, PhD

University Medical Center Utrecht, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry

Cor J. Kalkman, MD

University Medical Center Utrecht, Departments of Anesthesiology

In the Octopus Study, 281 coronary artery bypass surgery patients were randomized to surgery with or without cardiopulmonary bypass. The primary objective was to compare cognitive outcome between off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. Before and after surgery, psychologists administered a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests to the patients. Cognitive decline was defined as a decrease in an individual’s performance of at least 20% from baseline, in at least 20% of the main variables. According to this definition, cognitive decline was present in 21% in the off-pump group and 29% in the on-pump group, 3 months after the procedure (P = .15). At 12 months, cognitive decline was present in 31% in the off-pump group and 34% in the on-pump group (P = .69). These results indicated that patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass had improved cognitive outcomes 3 months after the procedure, but the effects were limited and became negligible at 12 months. The same definition of cognitive decline was also applied to 112 volunteers not undergoing surgery. The definition labeled 28% of the control subjects as suffering from cognitive decline, 3 months after their first assessment. This suggests that the natural fluctuations in performance during repeated neuropsychological testing should be included in the statistical analysis of cognitive decline. Using an alternative definition of cognitive decline that takes these natural fluctuations in performance into account, the proportions of coronary artery bypass surgery patients displaying cognitive decline were substantially lower. This indicates that the incidence of cognitive decline after coronary artery bypass surgery has been overestimated.

Key Words: coronary artery bypass surgery • cognitive decline • cardiopulmonary bypass • Octopus Study

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