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ABSTRACT: Background
Respiratory mechanics models can aid in optimising patient-specific mechanical ventilation (MV), but the applications are limited to fully sedated MV patients who have little or no spontaneously breathing efforts. This research presents a time-varying elastance (E(drs)) model that can be used in spontaneously breathing patients to determine their respiratory mechanics.Methods
A time-varying respiratory elastance model is developed with a negative elastic component (E(demand)), to describe the driving pressure generated during a patient initiated breathing cycle. Data from 22 patients who are partially mechanically ventilated using Pressure Support (PS) and Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) are used to investigate the physiology relevance of the time-varying elastance model and its clinical potential. E(drs) of every breathing cycle for each patient at different ventilation modes are presented for comparison.Results
At the start of every breathing cycle initiated by patient, E(drs) is < 0. This negativity is attributed from the E(demand) due to a positive lung volume intake at through negative pressure in the lung compartment. The mapping of E(drs) trajectories was able to give unique information to patients' breathing variability under different ventilation modes. The area under the curve of E(drs) (AUCE(drs)) for most patients is > 25 cmH2Os/l and thus can be used as an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) severity indicator.Conclusion
The E(drs) model captures unique dynamic respiratory mechanics for spontaneously breathing patients with respiratory failure. The model is fully general and is applicable to both fully controlled and partially assisted MV modes.
SUBMITTER: Chiew YS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4303416 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chiew Yeong Shiong YS Pretty Christopher C Docherty Paul D PD Lambermont Bernard B Shaw Geoffrey M GM Desaive Thomas T Chase J Geoffrey JG
PloS one 20150122 1
<h4>Background</h4>Respiratory mechanics models can aid in optimising patient-specific mechanical ventilation (MV), but the applications are limited to fully sedated MV patients who have little or no spontaneously breathing efforts. This research presents a time-varying elastance (E(drs)) model that can be used in spontaneously breathing patients to determine their respiratory mechanics.<h4>Methods</h4>A time-varying respiratory elastance model is developed with a negative elastic component (E(d ...[more]