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Patient-ventilator asynchronies: may the respiratory mechanics play a role?

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Care, March 2013
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Title
Patient-ventilator asynchronies: may the respiratory mechanics play a role?
Published in
Critical Care, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/cc12580
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Annalisa Carlucci, Lara Pisani, Piero Ceriana, Alberto Malovini, Stefano Nava

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The mechanisms leading to patient/ventilator asynchrony has never been systematically assessed. We studied the possible association between asynchrony and respiratory mechanics in patients ready to be enrolled for a home non-invasive ventilatory program. Secondarily, we looked for possible differences in the amount of asynchronies between obstructive and restrictive patients and a possible role of asynchrony in influencing the tolerance of non-invasive ventilation (NIV). METHODS: The respiratory pattern and mechanics of 69 consecutive patients with chronic respiratory failure were recorded during spontaneous breathing. After that patients underwent non-invasive ventilation for 60 minutes with a "dedicated" NIV platform in a pressure support mode during the day. In the last 15 minutes of this period, asynchrony events were detected and classified as ineffective effort (IE), double triggering (DT) and auto-triggering (AT). RESULTS: The overall number of asynchronies was not influenced by any variable of respiratory mechanics or by the underlying pathologies (that is, obstructive vs restrictive patients). There was a high prevalence of asynchrony events (58% of patients). IEs were the most frequent asynchronous events (45% of patients) and were associated with a higher level of pressure support. A high incidence of asynchrony events and IE were associated with a poor tolerance of NIV. CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that in non-invasively ventilated patients for a chronic respiratory failure, the incidence of patient-ventilator asynchronies was relatively high, but did not correlate with any parameters of respiratory mechanics or underlying disease.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Czechia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 103 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 15 14%
Researcher 15 14%
Student > Master 13 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 10%
Student > Postgraduate 10 10%
Other 23 22%
Unknown 19 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 59 56%
Engineering 11 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Psychology 2 2%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 20 19%
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