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Open Access 01-12-2016 | Research

Spontaneous breathing trial and post-extubation work of breathing in morbidly obese critically ill patients

Authors: Martin Mahul, Boris Jung, Fabrice Galia, Nicolas Molinari, Audrey de Jong, Yannaël Coisel, Rosanna Vaschetto, Stefan Matecki, Gérald Chanques, Laurent Brochard, Samir Jaber

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

Background

Predicting whether an obese critically ill patient can be successfully extubated may be specially challenging. Several weaning tests have been described but no physiological study has evaluated the weaning test that would best reflect the post-extubation inspiratory effort.

Methods

This was a physiological randomized crossover study in a medical and surgical single-center Intensive Care Unit, in patients with body mass index (BMI) >35 kg/m2 who were mechanically ventilated for more than 24 h and underwent a weaning test. After randomization, 17 patients were explored using five settings : pressure support ventilation (PSV) 7 and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) 7 cmH2O; PSV 0 and PEEP 7cmH2O; PSV 7 and PEEP 0 cmH2O; PSV 0 and PEEP 0 cmH2O; and a T piece, and after extubation. To further minimize interaction between each setting, a period of baseline ventilation was performed between each step of the study. We hypothesized that the post-extubation work of breathing (WOB) would be similar to the T-tube WOB.

Results

Respiratory variables and esophageal and gastric pressure were recorded. Inspiratory muscle effort was calculated as the esophageal and trans-diaphragmatic pressure time products and WOB. Sixteen obese patients (BMI 44 kg/m2 ± 8) were included and successfully extubated. Post-extubation inspiratory effort, calculated by WOB, was 1.56 J/L ± 0.50, not statistically different from the T piece (1.57 J/L ± 0.56) or PSV 0 and PEEP 0 cmH2O (1.58 J/L ± 0.57), whatever the index of inspiratory effort. The three tests that maintained pressure support statistically underestimated post-extubation inspiratory effort (WOB 0.69 J/L ± 0.31, 1.15 J/L ± 0.39 and 1.09 J/L ± 0.49, respectively, p < 0.001). Respiratory mechanics and arterial blood gases did not differ between the five tests and the post-extubation condition.

Conclusions

In obese patients, inspiratory effort measured during weaning tests with either a T-piece or a PSV 0 and PEEP 0 was not different to post-extubation inspiratory effort. In contrast, weaning tests with positive pressure overestimated post-extubation inspiratory effort.

Trial registration

Clinical trial.gov (reference NCT01616901), 2012, June 4th
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Metadata
Title
Spontaneous breathing trial and post-extubation work of breathing in morbidly obese critically ill patients
Authors
Martin Mahul
Boris Jung
Fabrice Galia
Nicolas Molinari
Audrey de Jong
Yannaël Coisel
Rosanna Vaschetto
Stefan Matecki
Gérald Chanques
Laurent Brochard
Samir Jaber
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1457-4

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