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Although positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) has been widely used in mechanical ventilated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), how to select the "optimal" PEEP is far from consensus. The application of PEEP may result in beneficial effect by recruiting previously collapsed lung areas, harmful effect by over-distending previously aerated lung areas, or a combination of the both. The net effect of PEEP in a certain patient may depend on the recruitability. Because recruitability varies extremely in ARDS patients and strongly correlates with the response to PEEP, estimation of end-expiratory lung volume (EELV) may be essential for individualized setting of PEEP. Whether the FRC changes at different PEEP levels remains unknown.


Clinical Trial Description

Although positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) has been widely used in mechanical ventilated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), how to select the "optimal" PEEP is far from consensus. The application of PEEP may result in beneficial effect by recruiting previously collapsed lung areas, harmful effect by over-distending previously aerated lung areas, or a combination of the both. The net effect of PEEP in a certain patient may depend on the recruitability. Because recruitability varies extremely in ARDS patients and strongly correlates with the response to PEEP, estimation of end-expiratory lung volume (EELV) may be essential for individualized setting of PEEP.

Passive spirometry has long been used to measure the lung recruitment volume (VREC). A prolonged expiration to zero end-expiratory pressure (ZEEP) or airway release maneuver is required and PEEP induced lung volume change above functional residual capacity (FRC) is measured. This technique assumes that FRC does not change at different PEEP levels.

This assumption that PEEP has no effect on FRC can date back to the study of Valta et al in the early 1990s. Using respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP), they found that in ALI/ARDS patients, after expiring from different PEEP levels to ZEEP, the plethysmography signal returned to the same baseline value. They concluded that FRC does not change with PEEP, and that changes of EELV are attributable only to change in ∆EELV. Ranieri et al arrived at similar conclusions by measuring differences in lung volumes at different PEEP levels using standardized pressure-volume (P-V) curves derived from the ventilator circuit monitors. However, Patroniti et al found an elevation of FRC as increasing of PEEP in patients with ARDS. In this study, FRC was measured with the helium dilution technique, and concluded that neglecting this effect resulted in marked underestimation of VREC. Whether the FRC changes at different PEEP levels remains controversial. The aim of the study is to assess the effect of PEEP on FRC during mechanical ventilation. ;


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NCT number NCT03511651
Study type Interventional
Source Capital Medical University
Contact Jian-Xin Zhou, MD
Phone 8610 67096579
Email zhoujx.cn@icloud.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date August 1, 2020
Completion date March 31, 2021

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