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A new paradigm for lung-conservative total liquid ventilation.
Matthias Kohlhauer1, Emilie Boissady1, Fanny Lidouren1
1U955 - IMRB, Inserm, UPEC, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Créteil, France.
Ebiomedicine
|August 27, 2019
Summary
This study introduces a lung-conservative approach to total liquid ventilation (TLV), using less perfluorocarbon than functional residual capacity (FRC). This method enhances respiratory recovery and offers neuroprotection, paving the way for safer clinical applications.
Area of Science:
- Critical Care Medicine
- Pulmonary Physiology
- Biomedical Engineering
Background:
- Total liquid ventilation (TLV) offers potential benefits for critically ill patients, including lung lavage and rapid cooling post-cardiac arrest.
- Traditional TLV involves filling lungs to functional residual capacity (FRC) with perfluorocarbons.
- A novel, lung-conservative TLV approach using volumes below FRC is proposed.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate a new paradigm of lung-conservative total liquid ventilation (TLV).
- To assess the efficacy and safety of TLV with perfluorocarbon volumes below functional residual capacity (FRC).
- To explore the potential for neuroprotection via ultra-fast cooling using this approach.
Main Methods:
- Developed and utilized a dedicated technology for TLV with controlled perfluorocarbon volumes.
- Compared outcomes of TLV below FRC versus complete lung filling in piglets.
- Assessed neuroprotective cooling in a hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy model.
- Validated the technology and approach in adult-sized pigs and aged non-human primates.
Main Results:
- Perfluorocarbon volumes below FRC improved respiratory recovery, preserved lung structure, and accelerated liquid evaporation compared to complete filling.
- TLV below FRC prevented volutrauma by maintaining alveolar recruitment reserve.
- Temperature-controlled TLV facilitated neuroprotective ultra-fast cooling.
- Incomplete lung filling during TLV proved beneficial across different species and lung sizes.
Conclusions:
- Accurate control of perfluorocarbon volume below FRC enables the full potential of TLV safely and innovatively.
- This lung-conservative tidal liquid ventilation of incompletely filled lungs represents a new paradigm.
- The approach shows promising perspectives for safer clinical translation in critical care.
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