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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: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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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- 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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Norden N, Lundin EO, Hagberg E, Gao SA, Hård af Segerstad M, Nellgård B, Dalla K. Cardiac involvement in critically ill and mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 - a prospective, observational echocardiographic study. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 2021; 11:253-261. [PMID: 34084661 PMCID: PMC8166586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 02/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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INTRODUCTION In this prospective, observational study, we have evaluated right (RV) and left (LV) ventricular function with echocardiography and correlated it to the levels of biomarkers, hs-TNT, NT-pro-BNP, D-dimer and fibrinogen. In a subgroup, we have evaluated the effect of inhaled milrinone on RV afterload and function. METHODS Thirty-one ICU patients with COVID-19 in need of mechanical ventilation and norepinephrine infusion were prospectively included. Hemodynamic and respiratory variables were measured at the time of the echocardiographic examination and biomarkers were obtained on arrival at the ICU and then followed up routinely. Eight patients received inhaled aerosolized milrinone at a dose of 2.5 mg/hour. RESULTS The most common echocardiographic pattern was RV dilation with or without systolic dysfunction, which was found in 62% of patients. Pulmonary acceleration time was abnormal in 55% and indices of RV systolic function, such as fractional area of change, RV strain, were abnormal in 30% and 31% of patients respectively. A cardiac index of < 2.5 l/min*m2 was seen in 58% of the patients. Left ventricular ejection fraction and global left ventricular strain were impaired in 10% and 16% respectively. The correlation between echocardiographic variables and cardiac biomarkers was poor. RV afterload correlated well to the levels of D-dimer. Milrinone inhalation did not improve RV function or afterload. CONCLUSION RV dysfunction was the most common finding. The poor correlation to cardiac biomarkers argues against extensive myocardial involvement. The lack of improvement in RV function after milrinone inhalation suggests that the most likely cause of RV dysfunction is increased RV afterload caused by pulmonary thrombosis/embolism.
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- Nina Norden
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of GothenburgSweden
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at The University of GothenburgGothenburg, Sweden
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Assessment of Electrical Impedance Tomography to Set Optimal Positive End-Expiratory Pressure for Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation-Treated Patients. Crit Care Med 2021; 49:923-933. [PMID: 33595959 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Patients on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation have many risk factors for pulmonary complications in addition to their heart failure. Optimal positive end-expiratory pressure is unknown in these patients. The aim was to evaluate the ability of electrical impedance tomography to help the physician to select the optimal positive end-expiratory pressure in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treated and mechanically ventilated patients during a positive end-expiratory pressure trial. DESIGN Observational prospective monocentric. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Patients (n = 23) older than 18 years old, on mechanical ventilation and venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. INTERVENTIONS A decreasing positive end-expiratory pressure trial (20-5 cm H2O) in increments of 5 cm H2O was performed and monitored by a collection of clinical parameters, ventilatory and ultrasonographic (cardiac and pulmonary) to define an optimal positive end-expiratory pressure according to respiratory criteria (optimal positive end-expiratory pressure selected by physician with respiratory parameters), and then adjusted according to hemodynamic and cardiac tolerances (optimal positive end-expiratory pressure selected by physician with respiratory, hemodynamic, and echocardiographic parameters). At the same time, electrical impedance tomography data (regional distribution of ventilation, compliance, and overdistension collapse) were recorded and analyzed retrospectively to define the optimal positive end-expiratory pressure. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS The median of this optimal positive end-expiratory pressure was 10 cm H2O in our population. Electrical impedance tomography showed that increasing positive end-expiratory pressure promoted overdistention of ventral lung, maximum at positive end-expiratory pressure 20 cm H20 (34% [interquartile range, 24.5-40]). Decreasing positive end-expiratory pressure resulted in collapse of dorsal lung (29% [interquartile range, 21-45.8]). The optimal positive end-expiratory pressure selected by physician with respiratory parameters was not different from the positive end-expiratory pressure chosen by the electrical impedance tomography. However, there is a negative impact of a high level of intrathoracic pressure on hemodynamic and cardiac tolerances. CONCLUSIONS Our results support that electrical impedance tomography appears predictive to define optimal positive end-expiratory pressure on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, aided by echocardiography to optimize hemodynamic assessment and management.
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