Thomas Kiss1, Thomas Bluth1, Anja Braune1, Robert Huhle1, Axel Denz2, Moritz Herzog1, Johannes Herold1, Luigi Vivona1,3, Marco Millone1,4, Alice Bergamaschi1,4, Michael Andreeff5, Martin Scharffenberg1, Jakob Wittenstein1, Marcos F Vidal Melo6, Thea Koch1, Patricia R M Rocco7, Paolo Pelosi4, Jörg Kotzerke5, Marcelo Gama de Abreu1. 1. Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 2. Department of Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. 3. Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy. 4. Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. 5. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany. 6. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA. 7. Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine the impact of positive end-expiratory pressure during mechanical ventilation with and without spontaneous breathing activity on regional lung inflammation in experimental nonsevere acute respiratory distress syndrome. DESIGN: Laboratory investigation. SETTING: University hospital research facility. SUBJECTS: Twenty-four pigs (28.1-58.2 kg). INTERVENTIONS: In anesthetized animals, intrapleural pressure sensors were placed thoracoscopically in ventral, dorsal, and caudal regions of the left hemithorax. Lung injury was induced with saline lung lavage followed by injurious ventilation in supine position. During airway pressure release ventilation with low tidal volumes, positive end-expiratory pressure was set 4 cm H2O above the level to reach a positive transpulmonary pressure in caudal regions at end-expiration (best-positive end-expiratory pressure). Animals were randomly assigned to one of four groups (n = 6/group; 12 hr): 1) no spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure - 4 cm H2O, 2) no spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure + 4 cm H2O, 3) spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure + 4 cm H2O, 4) spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure - 4 cm H2O. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Global lung inflammation assessed by specific [F]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake rate (median [25-75% percentiles], min) was decreased with higher compared with lower positive end-expiratory pressure both without spontaneous breathing activity (0.029 [0.027-0.030] vs 0.044 [0.041-0.065]; p = 0.004) and with spontaneous breathing activity (0.032 [0.028-0.043] vs 0.057 [0.042-0.075]; p = 0.016). Spontaneous breathing activity did not increase global lung inflammation. Lung inflammation in dorsal regions correlated with transpulmonary driving pressure from spontaneous breathing at lower (r = 0.850; p = 0.032) but not higher positive end-expiratory pressure (r = 0.018; p = 0.972). Higher positive end-expiratory pressure resulted in a more homogeneous distribution of aeration and regional transpulmonary pressures at end-expiration along the ventral-dorsal gradient, as well as a shift of the perfusion center toward dependent zones in the presence of spontaneous breathing activity. CONCLUSIONS: In experimental mild-to-moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome, positive end-expiratory pressure levels that stabilize dependent lung regions reduce global lung inflammation during mechanical ventilation, independent from spontaneous breathing activity.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the impact of positive end-expiratory pressure during mechanical ventilation with and without spontaneous breathing activity on regional lung inflammation in experimental nonsevere acute respiratory distress syndrome. DESIGN: Laboratory investigation. SETTING: University hospital research facility. SUBJECTS: Twenty-four pigs (28.1-58.2 kg). INTERVENTIONS: In anesthetized animals, intrapleural pressure sensors were placed thoracoscopically in ventral, dorsal, and caudal regions of the left hemithorax. Lung injury was induced with saline lung lavage followed by injurious ventilation in supine position. During airway pressure release ventilation with low tidal volumes, positive end-expiratory pressure was set 4 cm H2O above the level to reach a positive transpulmonary pressure in caudal regions at end-expiration (best-positive end-expiratory pressure). Animals were randomly assigned to one of four groups (n = 6/group; 12 hr): 1) no spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure - 4 cm H2O, 2) no spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure + 4 cm H2O, 3) spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure + 4 cm H2O, 4) spontaneous breathing activity and positive end-expiratory pressure = best-positive end-expiratory pressure - 4 cm H2O. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Global lung inflammation assessed by specific [F]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake rate (median [25-75% percentiles], min) was decreased with higher compared with lower positive end-expiratory pressure both without spontaneous breathing activity (0.029 [0.027-0.030] vs 0.044 [0.041-0.065]; p = 0.004) and with spontaneous breathing activity (0.032 [0.028-0.043] vs 0.057 [0.042-0.075]; p = 0.016). Spontaneous breathing activity did not increase global lung inflammation. Lung inflammation in dorsal regions correlated with transpulmonary driving pressure from spontaneous breathing at lower (r = 0.850; p = 0.032) but not higher positive end-expiratory pressure (r = 0.018; p = 0.972). Higher positive end-expiratory pressure resulted in a more homogeneous distribution of aeration and regional transpulmonary pressures at end-expiration along the ventral-dorsal gradient, as well as a shift of the perfusion center toward dependent zones in the presence of spontaneous breathing activity. CONCLUSIONS: In experimental mild-to-moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome, positive end-expiratory pressure levels that stabilize dependent lung regions reduce global lung inflammation during mechanical ventilation, independent from spontaneous breathing activity.
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