Evaluation of electrical impedance tomography in the measurement of PEEP-induced changes in lung volume.

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  • P W Kunst
  • P M de Vries
  • P E Postmus
  • J Bakker
چکیده

STUDY OBJECTIVES A new noninvasive practical technique called electrical impedance tomography (EIT) was examined for the measurement of alveolar recruitment. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING ICU of a general hospital. PATIENTS Acute respiratory failure (ARF) patients. MEASUREMENTS The ventilation-induced impedance changes (VICs) of the nondependent and the dependent part of the lung were determined by EIT as a measure of tidal volume distribution. By the use of an impedance ratio (IR), defined as the VIC of the nondependent part of the lung divided by the VIC of the dependent part of the lung, the ventilation performances in both parts of the lung were compared to each other. RESULTS Between patients, the VIC of the nondependent part of the lung was significantly lower in the patients with a level of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) of > 10 cm H2O than in patients with a PEEP of < 5 cm H2O (p < 0.05). A significantly lower IR (-/+ SD) was found in the group with PEEP of > 10 cm H2O than in the group with PEEP between 0 and 5 cm H2O (1.28+/-0.58 vs 2.99+/-1.24, respectively; p < 0.01). In individual patients, the VIC of the whole lung increased when the PEEP level was increased. The VICs of the nondependent part of the lung and of the dependent part of the lung showed significant increases at a PEEP of 10 cm H2O compared to a PEEP of 0 cm H2O (p < 0.05). Also the IR decreased in individual patients when the PEEP was increased; a significant decrease was found at 10 cm H2O compared to 0 cm H2O (1.67+/-1.24 vs 2.23+/-1.47, respectively; p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The decrease in IR indicates an increase in VIC in the dependent part of the lung above the nondependent part of the lung. The increase in VIC can be regarded as an increase in lung volume, implying alveolar recruitment in the dependent part of the lung. The same results also have been shown in earlier reports by CT scan. Since EIT is far more practical than CT scanning and also is a bedside method, EIT might help in the adjustment of ventilator settings in ARF patients.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Chest

دوره 115 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999