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Vedrenne-Cloquet M, Khirani S, Khemani R, Lesage F, Oualha M, Renolleau S, Chiumello D, Demoule A, Fauroux B. Pleural and transpulmonary pressures to tailor protective ventilation in children. Thorax 2023; 78:97-105. [PMID: 35803726 DOI: 10.1136/thorax-2021-218538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This review aims to: (1) describe the rationale of pleural (PPL) and transpulmonary (PL) pressure measurements in children during mechanical ventilation (MV); (2) discuss its usefulness and limitations as a guide for protective MV; (3) propose future directions for paediatric research. We conducted a scoping review on PL in critically ill children using PubMed and Embase search engines. We included peer-reviewed studies using oesophageal (PES) and PL measurements in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) published until September 2021, and excluded studies in neonates and patients treated with non-invasive ventilation. PL corresponds to the difference between airway pressure and PPL Oesophageal manometry allows measurement of PES, a good surrogate of PPL, to estimate PL directly at the bedside. Lung stress is the PL, while strain corresponds to the lung deformation induced by the changing volume during insufflation. Lung stress and strain are the main determinants of MV-related injuries with PL and PPL being key components. PL-targeted therapies allow tailoring of MV: (1) Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) titration based on end-expiratory PL (direct measurement) may be used to avoid lung collapse in the lung surrounding the oesophagus. The clinical benefit of such strategy has not been demonstrated yet. This approach should consider the degree of recruitable lung, and may be limited to patients in which PEEP is set to achieve an end-expiratory PL value close to zero; (2) Protective ventilation based on end-inspiratory PL (derived from the ratio of lung and respiratory system elastances), might be used to limit overdistention and volutrauma by targeting lung stress values < 20-25 cmH2O; (3) PPL may be set to target a physiological respiratory effort in order to avoid both self-induced lung injury and ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction; (4) PPL or PL measurements may contribute to a better understanding of cardiopulmonary interactions. The growing cardiorespiratory system makes children theoretically more susceptible to atelectrauma, myotrauma and right ventricle failure. In children with acute respiratory distress, PPL and PL measurements may help to characterise how changes in PEEP affect PPL and potentially haemodynamics. In the PICU, PPL measurement to estimate respiratory effort is useful during weaning and ventilator liberation. Finally, the use of PPL tracings may improve the detection of patient ventilator asynchronies, which are frequent in children. Despite these numerous theoritcal benefits in children, PES measurement is rarely performed in routine paediatric practice. While the lack of robust clincal data partially explains this observation, important limitations of the existing methods to estimate PPL in children, such as their invasiveness and technical limitations, associated with the lack of reference values for lung and chest wall elastances may also play a role. PPL and PL monitoring have numerous potential clinical applications in the PICU to tailor protective MV, but its usefulness is counterbalanced by technical limitations. Paediatric evidence seems currently too weak to consider oesophageal manometry as a routine respiratory monitoring. The development and validation of a noninvasive estimation of PL and multimodal respiratory monitoring may be worth to be evaluated in the future.
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Affiliation(s)
- Meryl Vedrenne-Cloquet
- Pediatric intensive care unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France .,Université de Paris Cité, VIFASOM, Paris, France.,Pediatric Non Invasive Ventilation Unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France
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- Pediatric Non Invasive Ventilation Unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France.,ASV Santé, Genevilliers, France
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Pediatric intensive care unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France
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- Pediatric intensive care unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France
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- Pediatric intensive care unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione e Terapia del Dolore, Fondazione, IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Service de Médecine Intensive et Réanimation (Département R3S), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire APHP-Sorbonne Université, site Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.,UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, F-75005 Paris, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris Cité, VIFASOM, Paris, France.,Pediatric Non Invasive Ventilation Unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospitals, Paris, France
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OBJECTIVES This review discusses the different techniques used at the bedside to assess respiratory muscle function in critically ill children and their clinical applications. DATA SOURCES A scoping review of the medical literature on respiratory muscle function assessment in critically ill children was conducted using the PubMed search engine. STUDY SELECTION We included all scientific, peer-reviewed studies about respiratory muscle function assessment in critically ill children, as well as some key adult studies. DATA EXTRACTION Data extracted included findings or comments about techniques used to assess respiratory muscle function. DATA SYNTHESIS Various promising physiologic techniques are available to assess respiratory muscle function at the bedside of critically ill children throughout the disease process. During the acute phase, this assessment allows a better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of the disease and an optimization of the ventilatory support to increase its effectiveness and limit its potential complications. During the weaning process, these physiologic techniques may help predict extubation success and therefore optimize ventilator weaning. CONCLUSIONS Physiologic techniques are useful to precisely assess respiratory muscle function and to individualize and optimize the management of mechanical ventilation in children. Among all the available techniques, the measurements of esophageal pressure and electrical activity of the diaphragm appear particularly helpful in the era of individualized ventilatory management.
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Baedorf Kassis E, Loring SH, Talmor D. Should we titrate peep based on end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure?-yes. ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2018; 6:390. [PMID: 30460264 DOI: 10.21037/atm.2018.06.35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Ventilator management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been characterized by implementation of basic physiology principles by minimizing harmful distending pressures and preventing lung derecruitment. Such strategies have led to significant improvements in outcomes. Positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) is an important part of a lung protective strategy but there is no standardized method to set PEEP level. With widely varying types of lung injury, body habitus and pulmonary mechanics, the use of esophageal manometry has become important for personalization and optimization of mechanical ventilation in patients with ARDS. Esophageal manometry estimates pleural pressures, and can be used to differentiate the chest wall and lung (transpulmonary) contributions to the total respiratory system mechanics. Elevated pleural pressures may result in negative transpulmonary pressures at end expiration, leading to lung collapse. Measuring the esophageal pressures and adjusting PEEP to make transpulmonary pressures positive can decrease atelectasis, derecruitment of lung, and cyclical opening and closing of airways and alveoli, thus optimizing lung mechanics and oxygenation. Although there is some spatial and positional artifact, esophageal pressures in numerous animal and human studies in healthy, obese and critically ill patients appear to be a good estimate for the "effective" pleural pressure. Multiple studies have illustrated the benefit of using esophageal pressures to titrate PEEP in patients with obesity and with ARDS. Esophageal pressure monitoring provides a window into the unique physiology of a patient and helps improve clinical decision making at the bedside.
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- Elias Baedorf Kassis
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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