Ventilation strategy using low tidal volumes, recruitment maneuvers, and high positive end-expiratory pressure for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: a randomized controlled trial
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Ventilation strategy using low tidal volumes, recruitment maneuvers, and high positive end-expiratory pressure for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: a randomized controlled trial
Abstract
Context: Low-tidal-volume ventilation reduces mortality in critically ill patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Instituting additional strategies to open collapsed lung tissue may further reduce mortality.
Objective: To compare an established low-tidal-volume ventilation strategy with an experimental strategy based on the original "open-lung approach," combining low tidal volume, lung recruitment maneuvers, and high positive-end-expiratory pressure.
Design and setting: Randomized controlled trial with concealed allocation and blinded data analysis conducted between August 2000 and March 2006 in 30 intensive care units in Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia.
Patients: Nine hundred eighty-three consecutive patients with acute lung injury and a ratio of arterial oxygen tension to inspired oxygen fraction not exceeding 250.
Interventions: The control strategy included target tidal volumes of 6 mL/kg of predicted body weight, plateau airway pressures not exceeding 30 cm H2O, and conventional levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (n = 508). The experimental strategy included target tidal volumes of 6 mL/kg of predicted body weight, plateau pressures not exceeding 40 cm H2O, recruitment maneuvers, and higher positive end-expiratory pressures (n = 475).
Main outcome measure: All-cause hospital mortality.
Results: Eighty-five percent of the 983 study patients met criteria for acute respiratory distress syndrome at enrollment. Tidal volumes remained similar in the 2 groups, and mean positive end-expiratory pressures were 14.6 (SD, 3.4) cm H2O in the experimental group vs 9.8 (SD, 2.7) cm H2O among controls during the first 72 hours (P < .001). All-cause hospital mortality rates were 36.4% and 40.4%, respectively (relative risk [RR], 0.90; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-1.05; P = .19). Barotrauma rates were 11.2% and 9.1% (RR, 1.21; 95% CI, 0.83-1.75; P = .33). The experimental group had lower rates of refractory hypoxemia (4.6% vs 10.2%; RR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.34-0.86; P = .01), death with refractory hypoxemia (4.2% vs 8.9%; RR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.34-0.93; P = .03), and previously defined eligible use of rescue therapies (5.1% vs 9.3%; RR, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.38-0.99; P = .045).
Conclusions: For patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome, a multifaceted protocolized ventilation strategy designed to recruit and open the lung resulted in no significant difference in all-cause hospital mortality or barotrauma compared with an established low-tidal-volume protocolized ventilation strategy. This "open-lung" strategy did appear to improve secondary end points related to hypoxemia and use of rescue therapies.
Trial registration: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00182195.
Comment in
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Refining ventilatory treatment for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.JAMA. 2008 Feb 13;299(6):691-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.299.6.691. JAMA. 2008. PMID: 18270359 No abstract available.
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Testing protocols in the intensive care unit: complex trials of complex interventions for complex patients.JAMA. 2008 Feb 13;299(6):693-5. doi: 10.1001/jama.299.6.693. JAMA. 2008. PMID: 18270360 No abstract available.
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Ventilation strategies for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.JAMA. 2008 Jul 2;300(1):39-40; author reply 41-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.300.1.39-b. JAMA. 2008. PMID: 18594033 No abstract available.
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Ventilation strategies for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.JAMA. 2008 Jul 2;300(1):41; author reply 41-2. doi: 10.1001/jama.300.1.41-a. JAMA. 2008. PMID: 18594037 No abstract available.
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