Early white blood cell count in predicting mortality after acute paraquat poisoning: a Meta-analysis / 中华危重病急救医学

ABSTRACT

To evaluate the prognostic value of early white blood cell count (WBC) in patient of acute paraquat poisoning. Methods The literatures about the studies on early WBC and prognosis after paraquat poisoning published in journals at home and abroad were searched. The Chinese literature database contained CNKI, VIP, Wanfang Database, and China Biomedicine Database (CBM), and the journals were limited to the core journals. The foreign language database included PubMed, Embase and Cochrane library clinical controlled trial database. The retrieval date was from the initial publication to April 22nd in 2019, without the limitation of languages. Two researchers independently extracted literature information, and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) was used to evaluate literature quality. The odds ratio (OR), sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and the area under the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) were combined and analyzed through the Stata 15.0 software to evaluate the predictive value of early WBC after acute paraquat poisoning. Publication bias was analyzed by Deeks funnel graph. Results There were 7 retrospective studies and 1 prospective study in a total of 980 paraquat poisoning patients, 5 of them were English literatures, the others were Chinese literatures. There was no heterogeneity among the studies (I 2 = 43.5%, P > 0.05). The OR and its 95% confidence interval (95%CI) of the literature was combined through the fixed effect model. The Meta-analysis results were statistically significant (OR = 18.63, 95%CI = 13.63-25.48, P < 0.001), suggesting that the WBC was significantly correlated with the mortality of patients. The combined sensitivity, specificity, PLR, NLR and DOR were 0.75 (95%CI = 0.66-0.82), 0.85 (95%CI = 0.80-0.90), 5.14 (95%CI = 3.86-6.86), 0.29 (95%CI = 0.22-0.39), 17.53 (95%CI = 12.23-25.13) respectively, and the area under the SROC of the WBC was 0.88 (95%CI = 0.85-0.91). Deeks funnel plot was symmetrical (P = 0.21), and there was no obvious publication bias. Conclusion The early WBC has a certain predictive value for the prognosis of acute paraquat poisoning patients.