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Glauco M Plens1,2, Caio César Araújo Morais1,3, Thaís Gregol1
1Divisao de Pneumologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto do Coracao, Hospital das Clinicas Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Objective:
Current methods for estimating inspiratory muscle pressure ( Pmus ) during mechanical ventilation are either invasive or dependent on occlusion maneuvers. A noninvasive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm estimating in real-time the amplitude and timing of Pmus , enabling continuous monitoring of patient effort, driving pressure, and synchrony with the ventilator was designed, and its performance was evaluated against the gold standard obtained with esophageal manometry ( Pmus,es ).
Design:
A prospective diagnostic accuracy study.
Setting:
Two ICUs from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Patients:
Adult patients under pressure support ventilation.
Interventions:
None.
Measurements And Main Results:
Pmus estimated using AI ( Pmus,AI ) was compared with Pmus,es and to values derived from occlusion maneuvers, the pressure muscle index and the occlusion pressure ( Pocc ). Automatic detection of dyssynchronies based on Pmus,AI was compared with experts' classification. A total of 48 participants with 4918 cycles were analyzed. Pmus,es varied from 1.0 to 28.4 cm H 2 O. Pmus,AI showed a bias of 0.9 cm H 2 O, 95% limits of agreement -5.1, 6.9 cm H 2 O and detected extreme values of both Pmus,es and dynamic driving pressure with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve greater than 0.8. Pmus,AI accuracy was comparable to occlusion-based techniques. Sensitivity and specificity to detect ineffective effort, autotriggering or reverse triggering were 86.5% and 77.4%, respectively.
Conclusions:
AI presented good performance in detecting high and low Pmus , and allowed the automatic detection of specific types of dyssynchronies. This novel noninvasive method was comparable to intermittent techniques requiring occlusion maneuvers.
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