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Chest wall mechanics during pressure support ventilation.

Andrea Aliverti1, Eleonora Carlesso, Raffaele Dellacà

  • 1Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. andrea.aliverti@polimi.it

Critical Care (London, England)
|April 6, 2006
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Higher pressure support ventilation (PSV) levels in acute lung injury patients improve respiratory muscle coordination and synchronous chest wall expansion. Settings above 10 cmH2O promote better patient adaptation to the ventilator.

Area of Science:

  • Mechanical Ventilation
  • Respiratory Physiology
  • Critical Care Medicine

Background:

  • Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV) allows patient-ventilator synchrony, crucial for adaptation in acute lung injury (ALI).
  • Assessing chest wall kinematics and muscle effort is key to understanding patient response to PSV.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of varying PSV levels on breathing patterns.
  • To analyze chest wall mechanics, muscle pressures, and work of breathing in ALI patients.

Main Methods:

  • Nine ALI patients received PSV at 5, 10, 15, and 25 cmH2O with PEEP of 10 cmH2O.
  • Opto-electronic plethysmography measured chest wall, rib cage, and abdominal volume changes.
  • Muscle pressures and work of breathing were calculated using pressure-volume loops.

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Main Results:

  • Minute ventilation remained constant across PSV levels, but breathing frequency/tidal volume varied significantly.
  • Inspiratory muscle pressure and rib cage contribution to tidal volume increased below 15 cmH2O PSV.
  • Increased phase shift between rib cage and abdomen, and altered muscle activity were observed at lower PSV settings.

Conclusions:

  • Ventilatory patterns differ substantially with varying PSV levels in ALI patients.
  • PSV exceeding 10 cmH2O facilitates homogeneous respiratory muscle recruitment.
  • Synchronous thoraco-abdominal expansion is achieved with adequate PSV settings in ALI.