View clinical trials related to Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury.
Filter by:This is a research study to determine if identifying an optimal level of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) targeted specifically to individualized patient characteristics will shorten the time on the ventilator. Participants will have catheter placed through the nose into the esophagus to measure the pressure inside the chest. This catheter will remain until the patient is freed from the ventilator. Participants will be randomized to usual care or to have the level of PEEP determined by the esophageal balloon pressure readings. The total time spent on the ventilator will be recorded.
As an important life sustaining support , mechanical ventilation has greatly promoted the development of modern intensive care units. However, mechanical ventilation can lead to ventilator-induced lung injury, including barotrauma, volutrauma, atelectrauma and biotrauma. All patients undergoing mechanical ventilation are at risk of barotrauma. A multicenter prospective cohort study of 5183 patients with mechanical ventilation showed that the incidence of pulmonary barotrauma was 3%. The incidence of pulmonary barotrauma varied according to the causes of mechanical ventilation: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3%), asthma (6%), chronic interstitial lung disease (10%), acute respiratory distress syndrome (7%) and pneumonia (4%). At present, it is considered that one of the main causes of barotrauma is the increasing of transpulmonary pressure. Transpulmonary pressure is the difference between alveolar pressure and intrapleural pressure. The commonly adopted lung protective ventilation methods include: limiting plateau pressure less than or equal to 30 cmH2O, using small tidal volume ventilation (6-8 mL/kg ideal body weight) . All the above methods are to reduce trans-pulmonary pressure by reducing alveolar pressure. In addition to reducing alveolar pressure, increasing pleural pressure is another important way to reduce transpulmonary pressure and the incidence of barotrauma. At present, the main method is the use of neuromuscular blockade. However, there are many shortcomings in of neuromuscular blockade: 1. Time limit, generally not more than 48 hours; 2. Long-term use of neuromuscular blockade causes adverse reactions such as myopathy; 3. Neuromuscular blockade are only suitable for invasive mechanical ventilation patients, but not for non-invasive mechanical ventilation or high flow oxygen inhalation patients. Therefore, it is urgent to find other methods to reduce trans-pulmonary pressure and lung injury. The investigators drew inspiration from the early mechanism of "iron lung" ventilator and the clinical practice of reducing trans-pulmonary pressure and lung injury in obese patients. In the early stage, the investigators carried out the clinical practice of extrapulmonary lung protection strategy, that is, to give thoracic band restraint to patients undergoing non-invasive mechanical ventilation so as to reduce chest wall compliance, which can be significantly reduced under the same inspiratory pressure and occurrence of barotrauma. However, the respiratory mechanics mechanism of this method still needs to be further studied to determine whether it can reduce the incidence of barotrauma by reducing transpulmonary pressure. It is accessible and inexpensive. The aim of this study was to determine the changes of transpulmonary pressure in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation before and after thoracic band fixation by esophageal manometry without spontaneous breathing.
Patients admitted to Intensive Care Unit often are affected by acute respiratory failure at admission or during hospital stay, with a mortality of 30%. Treatment remains largely supportive with mechanical ventilation as the mainstay of management by improving the hypoxemia and reducing the work of breathing; however, the mechanical forces generated during ventilation can further enhance pulmonary inflammation and edema, a process that has been termed ventilator induced lung injury (VILI). Consequently, in clinical practice the lung protective ventilation is mainly based on the reduction of the tidal volume, the airway and the transpulmonary plateau pressure. A good clinical practice is based on the assessment of changes in respiratory mechanics. Aim of the study is to determine the accuracy of the OPTIVENT system in measuring transpulmonary pressure, comparing it with the systems currently in use in our Operative Unit.
Mechanical ventilation is frequently used in the operating room and the intensive care settings. Although essential in many cases, mechanical ventilation can be responsible for ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). The relationship between mechanical ventilation and VILI has been clearly demonstrated in animals and is highly suspected in humans. The putative mechanism responsible for VILI is excessive pulmonary strain or overdistension. Frequently observed in mechanically ventilated patients, the presence of a severe pre-existing pulmonary disease can increase the risk of overdistension. The development of a tool allowing early detection of pulmonary overdistension would represent a great asset in the prevention of VILI by allowing safer adjustments of mechanical ventilation parameters. Ultrasonographic imaging is a non-radiant, non-invasive technique already available in the intensive care setting. Already used for cardiac strain measurements, ultrasonography is a promising avenue to assess pulmonary strain. This pilot study will aim to create a small dataset of local pleural strain values assessed at predetermined pulmonary areas using ultrasound imaging in patients undergoing thoracic surgery requiring one-lung ventilation. This dataset will be used to help plan larger scale studies.
Study aims to prospectively evaluate if the pressures normally applied during mechanical ventilation in laparoscopic surgery induce stress on the pulmonary wall. To do this is used measure the variation of esophageal pressure, as indirect index of the pleural pressure and therefore of the transpulmonary pressure, in response to changes in airway pressures in a group of patients undergoing robotic assisted radical prostatectomy or videolaparoscopy.
Assisted ventilation represents, nowadays, the preferred ventilation mode in clinical practice.It has been shown that assisted ventilation modes improve ventilation/perfusion matching, descrease risk of Ventilator induced lung injury and muscle atrophy and have less influence on haemodynamic function. However, PSV (Pressure Support Ventilation) is not free from complications: it may worsen or cause lung injuries by increasing alveolar and intrathoracic negative pressure and by loosing control on Tidal Volume (Vt). Indeed, it has been demonstrated that Vt is the main factor related to VILI. It has been shown that lower Vt and higher PEEP can improve clinical outcome only if associated with a simultaneous reduction in Driving Pressure. Increase in Driving Pressure resulted strongly associated with negative outcomes, especially if higher than 15 cm H2O. PSV is currently the most used assisted ventilation mode. NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist) is a ventilation mode in which the diaphragmatic electrical activity (EAdi) is used as a trigger to start a mechanical breath, applying positive pressure during patient's inspiration. Diaphragmatic electrical activity (EAdi) can be detected by a particular nasogastric tube (EAdi catheter). EAdi is the currently available signal closest to the neural breathing centers, which can estimate the patient's respiratory drive, if phrenic nerves are not damaged. It has been demonstrated that NAVA ventilation can reduce the incidence of patient-ventilator asynchronies, because the delivery of the support and the cycling between inspiration and expiration are completely controlled by the patient. However, although PSV and NAVA have been widely compared in many investigations, up to now there are no studies about driving pressure variation during these two modalities of mechanical assisted ventilation. The aim of this study is to measure changes in driving pressure at different levels of ventilatory assistance in PSV and NAVA ventilation modes. Secondary end points are respiratory mechanics indices and patient/ventilator related asynchrony evaluation and comparison.
This is a prospective observational follow-up study of children enrolled in a single center randomized controlled trial (REDvent). Nearly 50% of adult Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) survivors are left with significant abnormalities in pulmonary, physical, neurocognitive function and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) which may persist for years.Data in pediatric ARDS (PARDS) survivors is limited. More importantly, there are no data identifying potentially modifiable factors during ICU care which are associated with long term impairments, which may include medication choices, or complications from mechanical ventilator (MV) management in the ICU including ventilator induced lung injury (VILI) or ventilator induced diaphragm dysfunction (VIDD). The Real-time effort driven ventilator (REDvent) trial is testing a ventialtor management algorithm which may prevent VIDD and VILI. VIDD and VILI have strong biologic plausibility to affect the post-ICU health of children with likely sustained effects on lung repair and muscle strength. Moreover, common medication choices (i.e. neuromuscular blockade, corticosteroids) or other complications in the ICU (i.e. delirium) are likely to have independent effects on the long term health of these children. This proposed study will obtain serial follow-up of subjects enrolled in REDvent (intervention and control patients). The central hypothesis is that preventing VIDD, VILI and shortening time on MV will have a measureable impact on longer term function by mitigating abnormalities in pulmonary function (PFTs), neurocognitive function and emotional health, functional status and HRQL after hospital discharge for children with PARDS. For all domains, the investigators will determine the frequency, severity and trajectory of recovery of abnormalities amongst PARDS survivors after ICU discharge, identify risk factors for their development, and determine if they are prevented by REDvent. They will leverage the detailed and study specific respiratory physiology data being obtained in REDvent, and use a variety of multi-variable models for comprehensive analysis. Completion of this study will enable the investigators to identify ICU related therapies associated with poor long term outcome, and determine whether they can be mitigated by REDvent.
Study conducted to confirm phrenic nerve stimulation using the a transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulator in the left jugular vein.
Respiratory complications range from 8% to 79% of the frequency after open heart surgery where the patient is on-pump operated by cardiopulmonary machine. There were many changes in physiology due to anesthesia and cardiac surgery which cause volume and barotrauma complications with mechanical ventilation. These complications increase cost by prolonging morbidity and morbidity as well as hospital stay. Intraoperative and postoperative mechanical ventilation strategies can prevent these complications. CPB stimulates the systemic inflammatory response to the secretion of neutrophil, endotoxin and proinflammatory cytokines in the complex, increasing the permeability of the capillaries. Although coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is associated with a 0.4% to 2.0% acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), mortality is quite high. Lung-protective ventilation strategies commonly used for prevention of ARDS. Ferrando et al. have proposed pulmonary ventilation with a tidal volume (TV) of less than 10 mL / kg as a pulmonary intraoperative protective ventilation strategy. Investigators aimed to compare oxygenation and ventilation parameters with respiratory mechanics in patients who underwent open heart surgery and were ventilated with 6 ml / kg tidal volume and 8 ml / kg TV, which were recommended as lung protective ventilation strategies during anesthesia.
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is associated with a mortality rate of 30 - 45 % and required invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) in almost 85 % of patients[1]. During controlled MV, driving pressure (i.e., the difference between end-inspiratory and end-expiratory airway pressure) depends of both tidal volume and respiratory system compliance. Either excessive tidal volume or reduced lung aeration may increase the driving pressure. ARDS patients receiving tidal volume of 6 ml/kg predicted body weight (PBW) and having a day-1 driving pressure ≥ 14 cmH2O have an increased risk of death in the hospital[2]. Seemly, in the LUNG SAFE observational cohort, ARDS patients having a day-1 driving pressure < 11 cmH2O had the lowest risk of death in the hospital[1]. Hence, driving pressure acts as a major contributor of mortality in ARDS, and probably reflects excessive regional lung distension resulting in pro-inflammatory and fibrotic biological processes. Whether decreasing the driving pressure by an intervention change mortality remains an hypothesis; but one of means is to decrease the tidal volume from 6 to 4 ml/ kg predicted body weight (PBW). However, this strategy promotes hypercarbia, at constant respiratory rate, by decreasing the alveolar ventilation. In this setting, implementing an extracorporeal CO2 removal (ECCO2R) therapy prevents from hypercarbia. A number of low-flow ECCO2R devices are now available and some of those use renal replacement therapy (RRT) platform. The investigators previously reported that combining a membrane oxygenator (0.65 m²) within a hemofiltration circuit provides efficacious low flow ECCO2R and blood purification in patients presenting with both ARDS and Acute Kidney injury[3]. This study aims to investigate the efficacy of an original ECCO2R system combining a 0.67 m² membrane oxygenator (Lilliput 2, SORIN) inserted within a specific circuit (HP-X, BAXTER) and mounted on a RRT monitor (PrismafleX, BAXTER). Such a therapy only aims to provide decarboxylation but not blood purification and has the huge advantage to be potentially implemented in most ICUs without requiring a specific ECCO2R device. The study will consist in three periods: - The first period will address the efficacy of this original ECCO2R system at tidal volume of 6 and 4 ml/kg PBW using an off-on-off design. - The second part will investigate the effect of varying the sweep gas flow (0-2-4-6-8-10 l/min) and the mixture of the sweep gas (Air/O2) on the CO2 removal rate. - The third part will compare three ventilatory strategies applied in a crossover design: 1. Minimal distension: Tidal volume 4 ml/kg PBW and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) based on the ARDSNet PEEP/FiO2 table (ARMA). 2. Maximal recruitment: 4 ml/kg PBW and PEEP adjusted to maintain a plateau pressure between 23 - 25 cmH2O. 3. Standard: Tidal volume 6 ml/kg and PEEP based on the ARDSNet PEEP/FiO2 table (ARMA).