Zhihua Lu1, Huiqing Ge2, Lilong Xu3, Feng Guo1, Ge Zhang1, Yinshan Wu1. 1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. 2. Department of Respiratory Care, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. 3. Department of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To assess alteration of diaphragmatic function by ultrasonography in a population of mechanically ventilated patients with or without sepsis. METHODS: We performed a prospective, 6-month, single-center, observational cohort study. Mechanically ventilated septic and nonseptic patients were studied within 24 hours following intubation and before the moment of ventilator liberation. Diaphragm thickness and contractile activity (quantified by diaphragmatic thickening fraction, DTF) were measured by ultrasonography at the zone of apposition. Intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility were measured. RESULTS: Fifty-two critically ill patients were included, 28 with sepsis and 24 without sepsis. Upon initiation of ventilation, DTF was lower in septic than that in nonseptic patients (P = 0.03). No difference was observed between septic and nonseptic patients for diaphragm thickness. Mean 188 ± 111 hours after the first measurement, both diaphragm thickness and DTF decreased significantly compared with first measurements in septic and nonseptic patients, all P < 0.001. Diaphragm thickness decreased by 9.1 ± 10.7% in nonseptic and by 16.0 ± 13.5% in septic patients, P = 0.049. DTF decreased by 15.2 ± 21.3% in nonseptic and by 30.7 ± 22.0% in septic patients, P = 0.013. CONCLUSIONS: Mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis were associated with an earlier and more severe diaphragm dysfunction compared with patients without sepsis.
PURPOSE: To assess alteration of diaphragmatic function by ultrasonography in a population of mechanically ventilated patients with or without sepsis. METHODS: We performed a prospective, 6-month, single-center, observational cohort study. Mechanically ventilated septic and nonseptic patients were studied within 24 hours following intubation and before the moment of ventilator liberation. Diaphragm thickness and contractile activity (quantified by diaphragmatic thickening fraction, DTF) were measured by ultrasonography at the zone of apposition. Intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility were measured. RESULTS: Fifty-two critically illpatients were included, 28 with sepsis and 24 without sepsis. Upon initiation of ventilation, DTF was lower in septic than that in nonseptic patients (P = 0.03). No difference was observed between septic and nonseptic patients for diaphragm thickness. Mean 188 ± 111 hours after the first measurement, both diaphragm thickness and DTF decreased significantly compared with first measurements in septic and nonseptic patients, all P < 0.001. Diaphragm thickness decreased by 9.1 ± 10.7% in nonseptic and by 16.0 ± 13.5% in septic patients, P = 0.049. DTF decreased by 15.2 ± 21.3% in nonseptic and by 30.7 ± 22.0% in septic patients, P = 0.013. CONCLUSIONS: Mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis were associated with an earlier and more severe diaphragm dysfunction compared with patients without sepsis.