Cochrane · systematic review · CD013584

Effects of interventions targeting the systemic inflammatory response to cardiac surgery on clinical outcomes in adults

Abbasciano, RG, Tomassini, S, Roman, MA, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2023 · Cochrane Library

HeartAMSTAR 2: not assessed
SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
7
current version
GRADE rated
7
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 5 · 71.4%Low 2 · 28.6%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

Questions and results

Summary of findings table for pooled treatment effects of the three categories of inflammatory intervention against control

7 questions
OutcomeEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
Peak IL‐6 (between the end of surgery and 24 hours post‐surgery)
no estimate extracted152 studies · 6485 participantsVery low
Peak IL‐8 (between the end of surgery and 6 hours post‐surgery)
no estimate extracted72 studies · 2963 participantsVery low
Hospital or 30‐day mortality
RR 0.78 [0.68, 0.91]190 studies · 24817 participantsVery low
Myocardial injury (hospital stay)
RR 1.04 [0.95, 1.14]86 studies · 23118 participantsVery low
Kidney injury (safety outcome) (hospital stay)
RR 1.06 [0.96, 1.16]79 studies · 23103 participantsLow
Surgical Site Infection (hospital stay)
RR 0.92 [0.83, 1.01]40 studies · 19368 participantsLow
Duration of hospital length of stay
no estimate extracted148 studies · 15547 participantsVery low