Simplified method to measure respiratory-related changes in arterial pulse pressure in patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
OBJECTIVE
Measuring respiratory-related changes in arterial pulse pressure is useful to guide fluid expansion in hemodynamically compromised patients. In the absence of automation, this can be uneasy in clinical practice. The objective of this study was to test an alternative approach (expiratory pause) that should be easier to apply.


METHODS
Prospective observational study comparing two measurement methods of a biological variable.


METHODS
Seventeen patients receiving mechanical ventilation without spontaneous respiratory activity, with an arterial indwelling catheter, exhibiting respiratory-related fluctuations in arterial pressure.


METHODS
Ten-bed respiratory ICU in a 2,000-bed university hospital.


METHODS
Analysis of clinically gathered data without specific experimental intervention.


METHODS
Determinations of the change in arterial pulse pressure observed during ventilatory cycling (Delta Pp,dyn) ["dynamic"] and change in arterial pulse pressure observed during expiratory pauses (Delta Pp,stat) ["static"] were performed to assess respiratory mechanics, and comparison of the two sets of data (correlation, Bland and Altman, Passing and Bablok regression).


RESULTS
Delta Pp,dyn and Delta Pp,stat were strongly correlated (R = 0.964; 95% confidence interval, 0.917 to 0.987; p < 0.0001), with a good level of agreement (mean difference, 0.016; lower limit of agreement, - 0.087; upper limit, 0.120) and no systematic difference.


CONCLUSIONS
Measuring respiratory-related Delta Pp,stat provides data that seem interchangeable with Delta Pp,dyn, providing an easy means to routinely obtain this information.
Morélot-Panzini
Capucine
C
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Respiratoire et Unité de Réanimation, Service de Pneumologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
Lefort
Yannick
Y
Derenne
Jean-Philippe
JP
Similowski
Thomas
T
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