Articles: extravascular-lung-water.
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Critical care medicine · Jan 1991
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical TrialSingle versus double indicator dilution measurements of extravascular lung water.
To compare a simplified method of measuring extravascular lung water (EVLW) using only a single indicator (EVLW-SI) with the standard double indicator dilution technique (EVLW-DI). ⋯ Theoretically, neither injection of green dye nor blood withdrawal should be necessary during measurements of EVLW-SI, making it a simpler technique for bedside use than EVLW-DI. However, significant discrepancies exist between the two techniques. Some of this difference is apparently due to technical factors related to catheter design. In any case, we cannot recommend use of the single indicator dilution technique at present to estimate EVLW.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Priming of cardiopulmonary bypass with human albumin or Ringer lactate: effect on colloid osmotic pressure and extravascular lung water.
We have undertaken a randomized study on 20 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in order to determine the influence of cardiopulmonary pump prime solutions on colloid osmotic pressure and extravascular lung water. Crystalloid priming with Ringer lactate was compared with an albumin solution of nearly physiological colloid osmotic composition (4%). ⋯ The more pronounced decrease in colloid osmotic pressure and in transcapillary gradient (difference between colloid osmotic pressure and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure) in the Ringer lactate group was associated with a significant increase in extravascular lung water (by 60%) in the postoperative period; the human albumin group, however, showed only a slight tendency to increased lung water. There were no differences in haemodynamic or respiratory states after operation.
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J Cardiothorac Anesth · Feb 1990
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialLung management during cardiopulmonary bypass: influence on extravascular lung water.
Progressive respiratory insufficiency secondary to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is still a hazard after cardiac surgery. Pathophysiologically, impaired capillary endothelial integrity seems to be the fundamental lesion, followed by increased interstitial fluid accumulation. The reasons for this pulmonary damage are controversial; however, management of the nonperfused lungs during CPB has been widely neglected and may be partly responsible. ⋯ Measurements were performed after induction of anesthesia, before onset of CPB, and immediately after weaning from bypass, as well as 60 minutes and 5 hours after termination of CPB. Pulmonary gas exchange (PaO2) and intrapulmonary shunting (Qs/Qt) were also measured. Starting from comparable, normal baseline values, EVLW was increased in all groups after weaning from CPB, with the most pronounced increase in group 4 (maximum, +35%) and group 5 (+40%).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)