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  • Respiratory Physiology
  • Medical Technology

Background:

  • Reverse triggering is a frequent ventilatory asynchrony in sedated, critically ill patients.
  • It can lead to diaphragmatic and lung injury if associated with high respiratory effort.
  • Current assessment methods are limited by reliance on expert review of small data segments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an automated tool for detecting and characterizing reverse triggering.
  • To assess the prevalence and associated respiratory effort of reverse triggering in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.

Main Methods:

  • An observational study using ventilator and esophageal tracings from 10 subjects.
  • Development of an automated Python-based tool to identify reverse triggering prevalence and effort.
  • Validation of the automated tool against expert visual assessment.

Main Results:

  • Reverse triggering occurred in 30.9% of breaths across 91 hours of recordings, with significant inter-individual variability.
  • The automated tool demonstrated high diagnostic performance (89.1% accuracy).
  • The median respiratory effort associated with reverse triggering was -5.20 cm H2O.

Conclusions:

  • An automated tool effectively detects reverse triggering during prolonged mechanical ventilation.
  • Reverse triggering is common and typically linked to low respiratory effort, but shows significant patient variability.