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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To summarize recent data indicating that loaded breathing generates an inflammatory response. RECENT FINDINGS Loaded breathing initiates an inflammatory response consisting of elevation of plasma cytokines and recruitment and activation of lymphocyte subpopulations. These cytokines do not originate from monocytes but are instead produced within the diaphragm secondary to the increased muscle activation. Oxidative stress is a major stimulus for the cytokine induction secondary to loaded breathing. The production of cytokines within the diaphragm may mediate the diaphragm muscle fiber injury that occurs with strenuous contractions, or contribute to the expected repair process. These cytokines may also compromise diaphragmatic contractility or contribute to the development of muscle cachexia. They may also have systemic effects, mobilizing glucose from the liver and free fatty acids from the adipose tissue to the strenuously working respiratory muscles. At the same time, they stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, leading to the production of adrenocorticotropic hormone and beta-endorphins. The adrenocorticotropic hormone response may represent an attempt of the organism to reduce the injury occurring in the respiratory muscles through the production of glucocorticoids and the induction of the acute-phase response proteins. The beta-endorphin response would decrease the activation of the respiratory muscles and change the pattern of breathing, which becomes more rapid and shallow, possibly in an attempt to reduce and/or prevent further injury to the respiratory muscles. SUMMARY Loaded breathing is an immune challenge for the body, initiating an inflammatory response. Further studies are needed to elucidate the role of this response in the development of ventilatory failure.
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- Theodoros Vassilakopoulos
- Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Services, University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.
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Parthasarathy S, Tobin MJ. Sleep in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 2004; 30:197-206. [PMID: 14564378 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2030-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2003] [Accepted: 09/08/2003] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Abnormalities of sleep are extremely common in critically ill patients, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. About half of total sleep time occurs during the daytime, and circadian rhythm is markedly diminished or lost. Judgments based on inspection consistently overestimate sleep time and do not detect sleep disruption. Accordingly, reliable polygraphic recordings are needed to measure sleep quantity and quality in critically ill patients. Critically ill patients exhibit more frequent arousals and awakenings than is normal, and decreases in rapid eye movement and slow wave sleep. The degree of sleep fragmentation is at least equivalent to that seen in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. About 20% of arousals and awakenings are related to noise, 10% are related to patient care activities, and the cause for the remainder is not known; severity of underlying disease is likely an important factor. Mechanical ventilation can cause sleep disruption, but the precise mechanism has not been defined. Sleep disruption can induce sympathetic activation and elevation of blood pressure, which may contribute to patient morbidity. In healthy subjects, sleep deprivation can decrease immune function and promote negative nitrogen balance. Measures to improve the quantity and quality of sleep in critically ill patients include careful attention to mode of mechanical ventilation, decreasing noise, and sedative agents (although the latter are double-edged swords).
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- Sairam Parthasarathy
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Edward Hines Jr., Veterans Administrative Hospital, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Route 111 N, Hines, IL 60141, USA.
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Edward Hines Jr., Veterans Administrative Hospital, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Route 111 N, Hines, IL 60141, USA
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Bien MY, Hseu SS, Yien HW, Kuo BIT, Lin YT, Wang JH, Kou YR. Breathing pattern variability: a weaning predictor in postoperative patients recovering from systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Intensive Care Med 2004; 30:241-247. [PMID: 14647889 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2073-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2003] [Accepted: 10/20/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether breathing pattern variability can serve as a potential weaning predictor for postoperative patients recovering from systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). DESIGN AND SETTING A prospective measurement of retrospectively analyzed breathing pattern variability in a surgical intensive care unit. PATIENTS Seventy-eight mechanically ventilated SIRS patients who had undergone abdominal surgery were included when they were ready for weaning. They were divided into success (n=57) and failure (n=21) groups based upon their weaning outcome. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Before weaning, tidal volume, total breath duration, inspiratory time, expiratory time, and peak inspiratory flow were continuously monitored for 30 min, while patients received 5 cmH2O pressure support weaning trial. After the patients successfully completed the trial, they were extubated. Successful weaning was defined as patients free from the ventilator for over 48 h, whereas a weaning failure was considered as reinstitution of mechanical ventilation within 48 h of extubation. The coefficient of variation and two values of standard deviation (SD1 and SD2; indicators of the dispersion of data points in the plot) obtained from the Poincaré plot of five respiratory parameters in the failure group were significantly lower than those in the success group. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of these variability indices was within the range of 0.73-0.80, indicating the accuracy of prediction. CONCLUSIONS Small breathing pattern variability is associated with a high incidence of weaning failure in postoperative patients recovering from SIRS, and this variability may potentially serve as a weaning predictor.
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- Mauo-Ying Bien
- Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, 11221, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Department of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Department of Surgical Critical Care Unit, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Department of Surgical Critical Care Unit, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Department of Surgical Critical Care Unit, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, 11221, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Lanini B, Bianchi R, Romagnoli I, Coli C, Binazzi B, Gigliotti F, Pizzi A, Grippo A, Scano G. Chest wall kinematics in patients with hemiplegia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003; 168:109-13. [PMID: 12714347 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200207-745oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Owing to difficulties in measuring ventilation symmetry, good evidence of different right/left respiratory movements has not yet been provided. We investigated VT differences between paretic and healthy sides during quiet breathing, voluntary hyperventilation, and hypercapnic stimulation in patients with hemiparesis. We studied eight patients with hemiparesis and nine normal sex- and age-matched subjects. Right- and left-sided VT was reconstructed using optoelectronic plethysmography. In control subjects, no asymmetry was found in the study conditions. VTs of paretic and healthy sides were similar during quiet breathing, but paretic VT was lower during voluntary hyperventilation in six patients and higher during hypercapnic stimulation in eight patients (p = 0.02). The ventilatory response to hypercapnic stimulation was higher on the paretic than on the healthy side (p = 0.012). In conclusion, hemiparetic stroke produces asymmetric ventilation with an increase in carbon dioxide sensitivity and a decrease in voluntary ventilation on the paretic side.
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- Barbara Lanini
- Fondazione Don C. Gnocchi (IRCCS), Via Imprunetana, 124 50020 Pozzolatico, Florence, Italy.
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McDeigan GE, Ladino J, Hehre D, Devia C, Bancalari E, Suguihara C. The effect of Escherichia coli endotoxin infusion on the ventilatory response to hypoxia in unanesthetized newborn piglets. Pediatr Res 2003; 53:950-5. [PMID: 12646732 DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000064581.94126.1c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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To determine the effects of endotoxemia on the neonatal ventilatory response to hypoxia, 17 chronically instrumented and unanesthetized newborn piglets (</=7 d) were studied before and 30 min after the administration of Escherichia coli O55:B5 endotoxin (n = 8) or normal saline (n = 9). Minute ventilation, oxygen consumption, heart rate, arterial blood pressure, and blood gases were measured during normoxia and 10 min of hypoxia (fraction of inspired oxygen, 0.10). Basal ventilation was not modified by E. coli endotoxin infusion (mean +/- SE, 516 +/- 49 versus 539 +/- 56 mL/min/kg), but the ventilatory response to hypoxia was markedly attenuated at 1 min (955 +/- 57 versus 718 +/- 97 mL/min/kg, p < 0.002, saline versus endotoxin) and at 10 min (788 +/- 51 versus 624 +/- 66 mL/min/kg, p < 0.002). A larger decrease in oxygen consumption was observed during hypoxia and endotoxemia (6.3 +/- 2.8 versus 18.3 +/- 2.7%, p < 0.03, pre- versus post-endotoxin). A significant correlation was demonstrated between the changes in minute ventilation and oxygen consumption with hypoxia during endotoxemia (r = 0.9, p < 0.002). The ventilatory response to hypoxia was not modified by the saline infusion. These data show a significant attenuation in the ventilatory response to hypoxia during E. coli endotoxemia. This decrease in ventilation was associated with a significant decrease in the metabolic rate during hypoxia and endotoxemia.
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- Gwendolyn E McDeigan
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
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Parthasarathy S, Tobin MJ. Effect of ventilator mode on sleep quality in critically ill patients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 166:1423-9. [PMID: 12406837 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200209-999oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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To determine whether sleep quality is influenced by the mode of mechanical ventilation, we performed polysomnography on 11 critically ill patients. Because pressure support predisposes to central apneas in healthy subjects, we examined whether the presence of a backup rate on assist-control ventilation would decrease apnea-related arousals and improve sleep quality. Sleep fragmentation, measured as the number of arousals and awakenings, was greater during pressure support than during assist-control ventilation: 79 +/- 7 versus 54 +/- 7 events per hour (p = 0.02). Central apneas occurred during pressure support in six patients; heart failure was more common in these six patients than in the five patients without apneas: 83 versus 20% (p = 0.04). Among patients with central apneas, adding dead space decreased sleep fragmentation: 44 +/- 6 versus 83 +/- 12 arousals and awakenings per hour (p = 0.02). Changes in sleep-wakefulness state caused greater changes in breath components and end-tidal CO2 during pressure support than during assist-control ventilation. In conclusion, inspiratory assistance from pressure support causes hypocapnia, which combined with the lack of a backup rate and wakefulness drive can lead to central apneas and sleep fragmentation, especially in patients with heart failure.
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- Sairam Parthasarathy
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Administrative Hospital, Illinois 60141, USA
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Davidson KG, Bersten AD, Barr HA, Dowling KD, Nicholas TE, Doyle IR. Endotoxin induces respiratory failure and increases surfactant turnover and respiration independent of alveolocapillary injury in rats. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:1516-25. [PMID: 12045126 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.2012030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Although endotoxin-induced acute lung injury is associated with inflammation, alveolocapillary injury, surfactant dysfunction, and altered lung mechanics, the precise sequence of these changes is polemic. We have studied the early pathogenesis of acute lung injury in spontaneously breathing anesthetized rats after intravenous infusion of Salmonella abortus equi endotoxin. The animals became hypoxic, and airway resistance, tissue resistance, lung elastance, and static compliance all deteriorated well before any change in alveolar neutrophils, macrophages, lung fluid (99mTc-labeled diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid), or 125I-albumin flux, which were only appreciably increased at 8.5 hours. Lung elastance deteriorated before airway resistance, indicating that the compliance change was specific rather than caused by reduced lung volume. The subcellular and alveolar content of surfactant proteins A and B, cholesterol, disaturated phospholipids, and phospholipid classes remained normal in the face of a dramatic increase in the synthesis and turnover of 3H-disaturated phosphatidylcholine. Our findings indicate that the increase in surfactant disaturated phospholipid turnover reflects, at least in part, an approximately five-fold increase in "sigh frequency." We suggest that endotoxin has direct effects on tissue resistance and lung elastance independent of surfactant composition and that the initial respiratory failure results primarily from endotoxin-induced ventilation/perfusion mismatch independent of edema or alveolocapillary injury per se.
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- Kate G Davidson
- Department of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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Brack T, Jubran A, Tobin MJ. Dyspnea and decreased variability of breathing in patients with restrictive lung disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:1260-4. [PMID: 11991875 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.2201018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Patients with restrictive lung disease are typically dyspneic and have an increase in overall respiratory center drive, as a result of increased lung elasticity. When we subjected healthy volunteers to external elastic loads, their variability of breathing was lessened. Accordingly, we hypothesized that patients with restrictive lung disease display decreased variability of breathing and, also, that decreased variability of breathing is related to dyspnea. Breathing pattern was measured nonobtrusively over 1 hour in 10 patients with restrictive lung disease and in 7 healthy subjects. On a separate occasion, dyspnea was measured while all subjects copied different tidal volumes and frequencies. Compared with healthy subjects, the random fraction of breath variability was reduced in patients with restrictive lung disease: 27 times for expiratory time, 12 times for tidal volume, and 6 times for inspiratory time (p < 0.01 in each instance). Conversely, the nonrandom, correlated fraction for tidal volume was increased almost 3-fold in the patients (p < 0.01). Small variations from average resting tidal volume caused marked increases in dyspnea in patients, and the relationship was parabolic (r2 = 0.97; p < 0.001). In conclusion, patients with restrictive lung disease adopt a tightly constrained breathing pattern, probably as a strategy for avoiding dyspnea.
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- Thomas Brack
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Edward Hines Jr., Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois 60141, USA
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Tobin MJ. Sleep-disordered breathing, control of breathing, respiratory muscles, and pulmonary function testing in AJRCCM 2001. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:584-97. [PMID: 11874806 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.165.5.2201061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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- Martin J Tobin
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital, Route 11N, Hines, Illinois 60141, USA.
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- Martin J Tobin
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital, Route 11N, Hines, Illinois 60141, USA.
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