Articles: mechanical-ventilation.
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Observational Study
Electrical impedance tomography for predicting failure of spontaneous breathing trials in patients with prolonged weaning.
Spontaneous breathing trials (SBTs) on a T-piece can be difficult in patients with prolonged weaning because of remaining de-recruitment phenomena and/or insufficient ventilation. There is no clinically established method existent other than experience for estimating whether an SBT is most probably beneficial. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a clinical useful online monitoring technique during mechanical ventilation, particularly because it enables analysis of effects of regional ventilation distribution. The aim of our observational study was to examine if EIT can predict whether patients with prolonged weaning will benefit from a planned SBT. ⋯ EIT enables monitoring of regional ventilation distribution during SBTs and is suitable to estimate whether an SBT probably will be beneficial for an individual patient. Therefore, the application of EIT can support clinical decisions regarding patients in the phase of prolonged weaning.
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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. · Jul 2017
Effects of Physician-Targeted Pay-for-Performance on Use of Spontaneous Breathing Trials in Mechanically Ventilated Patients.
Pay for performance is an increasingly common quality improvement strategy despite the absence of robust supporting evidence. ⋯ In hospitals with low baseline SBT completion, physician-targeted financial incentives were associated with increased SBT rates driven in part by increased exclusion rates, without consistent improvements in outcome.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2017
Multicenter StudyThe impact of disability in survivors of critical illness.
To use the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Functioning to measure disability following critical illness using patient-reported outcomes. ⋯ Disability measured using patient-reported outcomes was prevalent at 6 months after critical illness in survivors and was associated with reduced health-related quality of life. Predictors of moderate or severe disability included a prior history of anxiety or depression, separation or divorce and a longer duration of mechanical ventilation.
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Transpulmonary pressure (PL) is computed as the difference between airway pressure and pleural pressure and separates the pressure delivered to the lung from the one acting on chest wall and abdomen. Pleural pressure is measured as esophageal pressure (PES) through dedicated catheters provided with esophageal balloons. We discuss the role of PL in assessing the effects of mechanical ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ⋯ Last, lung driving pressure (∆PL) reflects the tidal distending pressure. Changes in PL may also be assessed during assisted breathing to take into account the additive effects of spontaneous breathing and mechanical breaths on lung distension. In summary, despite limitations, assessment of PL allows a deeper understanding of the risk of VILI and may potentially help tailor ventilator settings.
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Several factors have been recognized as possible triggers of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). The first is pressure (thus the 'barotrauma'), then the volume (hence the 'volutrauma'), finally the cyclic opening-closing of the lung units ('atelectrauma'). Less attention has been paid to the respiratory rate and the flow, although both theoretical considerations and experimental evidence attribute them a significant role in the generation of VILI. ⋯ For the same elastance driving pressure is a predictor similar to plateau pressure or tidal volume. Driving pressure is one of the components of the mechanical power, which also includes respiratory rate, flow and PEEP. Finding the threshold for mechanical power would greatly simplify assessment and prevention of VILI.