We studied different sequences of lung inflation in ventilated newborn piglets with normal lungs in order to determine the effects of sequence, magnitude and duration of distending pressure on pulmonary function, and/or hemodynamics. End-expiratory pressure was varied using a continuous negative extrathoracic pressure (CNEP) device. Three groups of ventilated piglets with normal lungs were exposed to 2 cmH2O increments of CNEP from -2 to -12 cmH2O, and to decrements from -12 to -2 cmH2O, or to only -6 cmH2O. Lung inflation sequence, magnitude of inflation pressure, and duration of inflation had significant effects on end-expiratory lung volume and lung compliance at numerically equivalent pressure levels. End-expiratory lung volume and lung compliance varied (at four and five of six inflation pressures studied) by as much as 68% and 104%, respectively. Hemodynamic effects of the lung inflation sequence were more variable; those found to be different at numerically equivalent pressure levels were associated with changes in lung compliance and ventilation. Differences in pulmonary mechanics can best be explained by the effects of lung inflation on alveolar recruitment versus overinflation.
Little attention has been focused on the progressive pulmonary deterioration which occurs in mechanically ventilated infants with normal or mildly abnormal lungs. We hypothesized that lung function would deteriorate over a 24-hr period in anesthetized neonatal piglets with normal lungs mechanically ventilated at 2 cm H2O PEEP (2PEEP group). We further hypothesized that an intermittent lung inflation procedure consisting of 15 out of 60 min of increasing lung distention (4, 8, 12 cm H2O PEEP), with the remaining 45 min at 2 cm H2O PEEP (Inflation group) would prevent this deterioration in lung function, similar to piglets mechanically ventilated continuously at 6 cm H2O PEEP (6PEEP). Results indicate that 2PEEP piglets experienced progressive deterioration in lung function, including dynamic lung compliance (-42%) and lung resistance (+55%). In contrast, inflation piglets and 6PEEP piglets had no deterioration in lung function. Hemodynamics were similar between groups, although they were the most stable in the 6PEEP group. Histopathological changes were not significantly different. We conclude that (1) prolonged mechanical ventilation at 2 cm H2O PEEP in neonatal piglets resulted in progressive deterioration in pulmonary function, (2) intermittent lung inflation or continuous 6 cm H2O PEEP prevented deterioration, and (3) functional changes occurred without changes in histopathology. Lung inflation strategies other than PEEP can be used to prevent deterioration in lung function which accompanies prolonged mechanical ventilation in anesthetized nonspontaneously breathing piglets with normal lungs.
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