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Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation with either Positive End-Expiratory Pressure or High Frequency Jet Ventilation (HFJV), or HFJV Alone in Human Acute Respiratory Failure

Départment d'Anesthésie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France

Abstract

Continuous Positive Pressure Ventilation (CPPV), High-Frequency Jet Ventilation (HFJV), and a combination of HFJV with Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation (CV) were randomly compared in 13 critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory failure. Ventilatory settings were chosen in order to apply the same mean airway pressure

during the three modes. Respiratory frequencies were adjusted during CPPV (16 ± 2 breaths/min) and HFJV (235 ± 32 breaths/min) to achieve the same level of Paco₂ and were then combined during CV. All patients were heavily sedated during the study and had had peripheral and balloon-tipped pulmonary arterial catheters previously inserted. After a steady state at FiO₂ 1 in each mode of ventilation, hemodynamic and respiratory parameters were measured.

of 13.8 ± 2.9 mm Hg was applied to each patient by using a PEEP of 7.4 mm Hg during CPPV; a driving pressure of 2.9 ± 0.2 bars and an I/E ratio of 0.43 during HFJV; and by combining HFJV, using a driving pressure of 1.2 ± 0.3 bars with intermittent positive pressure ventilation during CV. There were no significant differences in any of the hemodynamic or respiratory parameters measured, except for a significant decrese in Paco₂ during CV when compared to CPPV or HFJV. We concluded that 1) arterial oxygenation and cardiac output depend mainly of

independent of the method used to increase

and 2) CV can improve CO₂ elimination without increasing

Because this latter advantage can also be obtained by using HFJV, we were unable to demonstrate any decisive advantage for this form of CV sufficient to recommend this rather complicated and expensive type of ventilation as the primary mode of ventilatory support in adults with serve acute respiratory failure.

Key Words: VENTILATION—high frequency jet and intermittent positive pressure

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999