PEEP titration guided by Electrical impedance tomography by fast and slow maneuver and pulmonary stability with protective mechanical ventilation strategy in a swine mode of Acute Respiratory Distress Sindrome

Author(s)

Tatiana de Arruda Ortiz

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-07-26

Examining board members

Marcelo Britto Passos Amato; Carmen Silvia Valente Barbas; Valdelis Novis Okamoto; Roberta Ribeiro de Santis Santiago; Márcia Souza Volpe

• Advisor: Marcelo Britto Passos Amato

Abstract

Introduction: The protective strategy of mechanical ventilation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which combines low tidal volume with higher PEEP, is an effective intervention to reduce the morbimortality of this syndrome. There is a consensus about setting tidal volume, but the method of choosing PEEP is still controversial. Decremental PEEP titration, following an alveolar recruitment maneuver, is a well-accepted method with physiological basis. The choice of PEEP is based on respiratory system complacency or imaging methods that assess lung collapse. This titration is usually done slowly (4-10 minutes in each step) which makes its execution difficult in clinical practice and increases the risk for the patient. In addition, the criteria for choosing the value of PEEP that maintains pulmonary stability over time are still uncertain. Objectives: 1) to compare, in a severe ARDS model in pigs, using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) and Computed Tomography (CT), the decremental PEEP titration in a conventional maneuver (slow, 32 minutes) and fast (6 minutes); and 2) to evaluate the pulmonary stability and hemodynamics (respiratory system compliance, shunt, PaO2 and cardiac output) during 1 hour of mechanical ventilation with 3 PEEP values defined by EIT: PEEP with less than 1% lung tissue collapse (PEEP TIT); less than 1% collapse of lung tissue + 2cm H2O (PEEP TIT + 2) and less than 1% collapse of lung tissue - 2cmH2O (PEEP TIT - 2). Methods: Twenty-five animals were studied, 6 of which also performed CT and 11 animals were monitored over time. Results: No difference was observed in the percentage of collapse found by the two imaging methods (CT and EIT), both in fast (p = 0.89) and slow (p = 0.86) titrations. There was a good concordance between the fast and slow titrations performed by EIT, with a difference between the slow and fast titrations of -0.6 (± 1.2) cmH2O. PaCO2 was significantly higher (p = 0.01) in slow titration than in fast titration. At the 1-hour follow-up, the PEEP TIT-2 strategy determined lower values of compliance (p < 0.001), lower PaO2 (p = 0.001) and higher shunt (p < 0,01) when compared with PEEP TIT and PEEP TIT +2 strategies. Conclusions: 1) fast titration had good agreement with slow titration and causes less hypercapnia; 2) optimum PEEP chose by fast titration using EIT (recruitable-collapse lower than 1%) was able to maintain good lung function and oxygenation during 1 hour of monitoring; 3) there was no difference between the recruitable collapse estimated by EIT and by dynamic CT (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/16257-0 - Pulmonary function stability with PEEP titration maneuver chosen by Rapid versus Slow during a protective ventilatory strategy in pig model
• Grantee: Tatiana de Arruda Ortiz
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate