This is Hallie Prescott's presentation from the opening plenary session at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art Meeting 2018
Dr. Hallie Prescott is an Assistant Professor in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and staff physician at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital. She leads grants on post sepsis morbidity and hospital performance measurement from the US National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs. She is an expert in long-term outcomes and recovery after sepsis, with a focus on preventable hospital readmissions. She is co-chair of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines, inaugural Lowry-Fink fellow of the International Sepsis Forum (2017-2019), a former ANZICS Intensive Care Global Rising Star fellow (2015), and winner of the Early Career Achievement award from the American Thoracic Society’s Critical Care Assembly (2018).
Circulatory Shock, types and stages, compensatory mechanisms
On the horizon: Critical Care and the Microbiome - Hallie Prescott
1. Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc
ICS State of the Art
LondonUK
December10,2018
Critical Care and the Microbiome
B17 - CRITICAL CARE: BURDEN OF SURVIVAL -
OUTCOMES AFTER CRITICAL ILLNESS IN
ADULTS AND CHILDREN
@HalliePrescott
2. Disclosures
• Funding:
– NIH/NIGMS K08 GM115859
– US Department of Veterans Affairs IIR 17-219
• I am a VA employee. This talk does not represent views of US government
or Department of Veterans Affairs
4. The forgotten organ of multi-organ failure
“clinical guidelines on critical illness
largely ignore the microbiome,
neglecting what is, effectively, a 1.5 kg
organ containing more DNA than every
host organ combined.”
Dickson, et al. Lancet Resp Med. 2016.
7. Mechanisms of microbiome disruption in ICU
Dickson, et al. Lancet Resp Med. 2016.
Microbial immigration
Microbial emigration
Environmental
Growth Conditions
Pathophysiological
Processes
Clinical
Interventions
Poor PO Intake Supine Positioning
Intestinal dysmotility Gastric-acid suppression
Hyperglycemia Enteral feeding
Electrolyte disturbance Parenteral feeding
Gut hypoperfusion Sedatives
Reperfusion injury Opiods
Impaired mucosal integrity Neuromuscular blockage
Endogenous opiod production Systemic catecholamines
Endogenous catecholame production Oral decontamination
Endogenous cytokine production Selective gut decontamination
Disruption of intestinal mucus layer Systemic antibiotics
Impaired mucosal immunity
8. With prolonged illness, there is near-complete
depletion of the gut microbiome
Zaborin, et al. MBio. 2014.
McDonald, et al. mSphere. 2016.
9. With prolonged illness, there is near-complete
depletion of the gut microbiome
Zaborin, et al. MBio. 2014.
“Extremely Low
Microbiome Health”
“Low Microbiome Health”
11. Deshmukh, et al. Nature Medicine. 2014
Schuijt, et al. Gut. 2015.
In experimental animal studies,
microbiome disruption increases susceptibility to sepsis
12. Deshmukh, et al. Nature Medicine. 2014
Pregnant
Mice
Antibiotics
No Antibiotics
Offspring w/
normal gut
microbiome
Offspring w/
altered gut
microbiome
intraperitoneal
E. coli instillation
Immune Response?
Survival?
In experimental animal studies,
microbiome disruption increases susceptibility to sepsis
13. Deshmukh, et al. Nature Medicine. 2014
In experimental animal studies,
microbiome disruption increases susceptibility to sepsis
Antibiotic pre-treatment:
• Altered microbial composition
• Impaired response to E.coli challenge (neutropenia, IL-17, GM-CSF)
• Failure to survive E.coli inoculation
Pregnant
Mice
Antibiotics
No Antibiotics
Offspring w/
normal gut
microbiome
Offspring w/
altered gut
microbiome
intraperitoneal
E. coli instillation
Immune Response?
Survival?
14. In experimental animal studies,
microbiome disruption increases susceptibility to sepsis
Deshmukh, et al. Nature Medicine. 2014
15. In experimental animal studies,
microbiome disruption increases susceptibility to sepsis
Schuijt, et al. Gut. 2015.
16. In humans, antibiotic-associated gut microbiome disruption
also alters some aspects of immune response
Lankelma, et al. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2016.
Day 8: less TNF-alpha production
during ex vivo stimulation by LPS
By 6 weeks: TNF-alpha response
restored
Broad spectrum
antibiotics
X 7 days
No
Antibiotics
17. In humans, antibiotic-associated gut microbiome disruption
also alters some aspects of immune response
Lankelma, et al. Gut. 2017.
Day 9: Following IV infusion
of LPS, immune response
was not different
Broad spectrum
antibiotics
X 7 days
No
Antibiotics
18. In humans, sepsis is increased transiently following
microbiome perturbation
Prescott, et al. AJRCCM. 2015
20. Exposures:
• Spectrum of antibiotics
• Number of antibiotic classes
• Duration of treatment
Finding: Dose-response relationship
More antibiotics increased risk of sepsis
Baggs, et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2017.
23. Restoring the microbiome improves survival
Khailova, et al. Anesthesiology. 2013.
Deshmukh, et al. Nature Medicine. 2014
Schuijt, et al. Gut. 2015.
Wilmore, et al. Cell Host & Microbe. 2018
24. Deshmukh, et al. Nature Medicine. 2014
Restoring the microbiome improves survival
25. Schuijt, et al. Gut. 2015.
Restoring the microbiome improves immune response
Microbiota transplant at hour 6 lead to:
• Normalization of bacterial counts in the lung
• Normalization of TNF-alpha and IL-10
26. Interim summary
• Microbiome disruption increases risk for sepsis in animals
• Restoring microbiome improves outcome in animals
• Microbiome disruption is common in critically ill patients
• May impair immunity and increase risk for sepsis
27. Are we ready to test the microbiome as a
therapeutic target?
• To prevent sepsis in high-risk populations
(ie. ICU patients, sepsis survivors)
• As an adjunct treatment in refractory sepsis
31. Panigrahi, et al. Nature. 2017.
Relative risk = 0.60
NNT = 27
3. Probiotics reduce sepsis in term neonates
32. 4. Probiotic therapy is safe in most patients
N=384 trials
72% reported harms, but description
was often rated as inadequate.
Basselink, et al. Lancet, 2008. Bafeta, et al. Annals Int Med. 2018.
Cohen. JAMA Int Med. 2018.
Use in healthy patients.
Confer antibiotic resistance genes.
Naso-jejunal tube administration along
with high-fiber feeds
Increased bowel ischemia, mortality
33. 5. Case reports suggest benefit in refractory sepsis
Li, et al. Am J Gastro. 2014. Li, et al. Crit Care. 2015.
Wei, et al. Crit Care. 2016.
34. Conclusions
• Critical illness alters the microbiome
• Microbiome disruption impairs our ability to fend off sepsis
• Probiotics / fecal transplant may help prevent/cure sepsis
• Sufficient mechanistic and safety data to justify larger trials
• But… dosing, type, and the need to personalize?
35. Implications for Clinical Practice Today
• Still give broad-spectrum antibiotics for sepsis
• Stop antibiotics ASAP
• When de-escalating, be wary of additional classes
• Consider probiotic, esp if diarrhea, prolonged course
Increasingly recognized to be important for human health and disease
However, the role of the microbiome in critical or acute illness has been somewhat under-appreciated.
Despite a wealth of clinical and experimental evidence suggests that the microbiome is central to the pathogenesis of critical illness…
However, the role of the microbiome in critical or acute illness has been somewhat under-appreciated.
Despite a wealth of clinical and experimental evidence suggests that the microbiome is central to the pathogenesis of critical illness…
However, the role of the microbiome in critical or acute illness has been somewhat under-appreciated.
Despite a wealth of clinical and experimental evidence suggests that the microbiome is central to the pathogenesis of critical illness…
In the review article that I mentioned at the beginning of the talk, there is a large table that lists a variety of pathophysiologic processes and clinical interventions common to critical illness.
And, for each of these factors, the tables provides evidence on how the physiologic process or treatment leads to microbiome disruption through at least one of these 3 mechanisms.
So, there is a lot of evidence the common physiological derangements and interventions of critical illness. But, maybe you are not convinced by this wealth of mechanistic evidence and want to see hard proof that human microbiome is deranged during critical illness.
Next, I will show you evidence that microbiome disruption…
Lastly, I will show you a study in humans that actually measured the microbiome.
The investigators sequenced the stool of 28 patients undergoing BMT for NHL. They founf that pre-BMT fecal microbiome composition was strongly predictive of which patients went on to develop a BSI during the engraftment period. Here you can see that the diversity (or health) of the microbiome is lower in the patients who went on to develop BSI vs those who did not develop BSI.
So, again, more data that the microbiome is important to resisting sepsis.
Next, I will show you evidence that microbiome disruption…
First, this is the same neonatal mouse study I showed previously. The mice who were exposed to antibiotics via their mother routinely died during subsequent bacterial challenge.
However, mice given Abx and fecal microbiota transplant survived for longer. So, not curative, but there is an indication that probiotics are doing something.