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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Lung volume measurements are important for monitoring functional aeration and recruitment, and may help guide adjustments in ventilator settings. The expiratory phase of APRV may provide physiologic information about lung volume based on the expiratory flow-time slope, angle, and time to approach a no-flow state (TExp). We hypothesized that expiratory flow rate would correlate with estimated lung volume (ELV), as measured using a modified nitrogen washout/washin technique in a large animal lung injury model.
METHODS: Eight pigs (35.2±1.0kg) were mechanically ventilated using an Engström Carescape R860 on the APRV mode. All settings were held constant except the expiratory duration (TLow), which was adjusted based on the expiratory flow curve. Abdominal pressure was increased to 15mmHg in normal and Tween-injured lungs to replicate a combination of pulmonary and extrapulmonary lung injury. ELV was estimated using the Carescape FRC InView Tool. The expiratory flow-time slope and TExp were measured from the expiratory flow profile.
RESULTS: Lung elastance increased with Tween-induced lung injury from 29.3±7.3cmH2O/L to 39.9±15.1cmH2O/L and chest wall elastance increased with increasing intra-abdominal pressures from 15.3±4.1cmH2O/L to 25.7±10.0cmH2O/L in the normal lung and 15.8±6.0cmH2O/L to 33.0±6.2cmH2O/L in the Tween-injured lung (p=0.39). ELV decreased from 1.90±0.83L in the Tween-Injured lung to 0.67±0.1L by increasing intra-abdominal pressures to 15mmHg. This had a significant correlation with a TExp decrease from 2.3±0.8s to 1.0±0.1s in the Tween-injured group with increasing insufflation pressures (ρ = 0.95) and with the expiratory flow-time slope, which increased from 0.29±0.06L/s2 to 0.63±0.05L/s2 (ρ = 0.78).
CONCLUSIONS: Changes in ELV over time, and the TExp and flow-time slope, can be used to demonstrate evolving lung injury during APRV. Using the slope to infer changes in functional lung volume represents a unique, reproducible, real-time, bedside technique that does not interrupt ventilation and may be used for clinical interpretation.
- End Expiratory Lung Volume
- Expiratory Flow
- Airway Pressure Release Ventilation
- Time Controlled Adaptive Ventilation
Footnotes
- Corresponding Author:
Michaela Kollisch-Singule, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, Office: 315–464-6302, Fax: 315–464-6237, KolliscM{at}upstate.edu
- Received November 25, 2023.
- Accepted February 17, 2024.
- Copyright © 2024 by Daedalus Enterprises
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