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CompletedNCT01019993Updated May 28, 2010

Non-dependent Lung High Frequency Positive Pressure Ventilation (HFPPV) and Right Ventricular Function

A Phase 1 interventional study of conventional OLV followed with IL-HFPPV in Lung Diseases and Esophageal Diseases, sponsored by King Faisal University. Completed at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2010-05-28.

Sponsored by King Faisal University · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
33
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The investigators hypothesized that the application of volume-controlled HFPPV to the non-dependent lung during one-lung ventilation (OLV) for thoracotomy in patients with good pulmonary functions and mild-to-moderate pulmonary dysfunction may provide preservation of the right ventricular (RV) function, adequate oxygenation and optimum surgical conditions.

The investigators evaluated the effects of IL-HFPPV on RV ejection fraction (REF), RV end-diastolic volume (RVEDVI), RV stroke work (RVSWI), pulmonary vascular resistance (PVRI), and stroke volume (SVI) indices, oxygen delivery (DO2) and uptake (VO2), shunt fraction (Qs: Qt), and surgical field conditions during OLV for thoracotomy in patients with good and mild-to-moderate impaired pulmonary functions.

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One-lung ventilation (OLV) provides an adequate operative field, but is opposed by the induced hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) in the non-ventilated lung. It may preserve overall oxygen delivery, however with deleterious increase in shunt fraction and pulmonary vascular resistance.1-2Right ventricular (RV) overload resulting from these increases in its afterload influences postoperative morbidity and mortality. Intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEPi) occurs frequently during OLV for thoracic surgery in the dependent lung of patients with pulmonary hyperinflation as opposed to patients with normal pulmonary function.3 The different approaches for the correction of hypoxemia during OLV may require some degree of recruitment of the non-dependent lung (IL), with different maneuvers such as the application of continuous positive pressure ventilation (CPAP) or high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) to the non-dependent lung. These recruitment strategies, although they may improve arterial saturation, may concurrently decrease cardiac output, therefore having contradictory effects on overall oxygen delivery.4-6 Gas trapping may occur with increased ventilatory frequency during HFJV. This may impair RVEF through the increases in RV afterload.7 Therefore, the use of high frequency positive pressure ventilation (HFPPV) using tidal volumes just greater than the dead space increases arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) and the carbon dioxide excretion (VCO2) linearly with increasing peak airway pressure.8 We hypothesized that the application of volume-controlled HFPPV to the non-dependent lung during OLV for thoracotomy in patients with good pulmonary functions and mild-to-moderate pulmonary dysfunction may provide preservation of the RV function, adequate oxygenation and optimum surgical conditions.

We evaluated the effects of IL-HFPPV on RV ejection fraction (REF), RV end-diastolic volume (RVEDVI), RV stroke work (RVSWI), pulmonary vascular resistance (PVRI), and stroke volume (SVI) indices, oxygen delivery (DO2) and uptake (VO2), shunt fraction (Qs: Qt), and surgical field conditions during OLV for thoracotomy in patients with good and mild-to-moderate impaired pulmonary functions.

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Conditions studied

  • Lung Diseases
  • Esophageal Diseases

Keywords

  • Thoracotomy
  • one lung ventilation
  • HFPPV
  • right ventricular function.
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In context

Lung Diseases

3,319 studies on the registry are indexed under Lung Diseases; 355 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 33 is below the median of 71 across 2,122 interventional studies indexed under Lung Diseases.

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Lead sponsor

King Faisal University is the lead sponsor of 15 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 60 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Thirty-three patients ASA physical status II-III) scheduled for elective open thoracic surgery were prospectively included in this study at the authors' cardiothoracic center. Approval of the institutional ethical committee and informed written consent was obtained specifically for use of pulmonary artery catheter which is not routinely used in thoracic procedures at the authors' center.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with decompensated cardiac (> New York Heart Association II), pulmonary (vital capacity or FEV1% \< 50% of the predicted values), hepatic, and renal diseases, arrhythmias, pulmonary hypertension (mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPAP) > 30 mm Hg), and previous history of pneumonectomy, bilobectomy or lobectomy.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
33 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    good pulmonary functions (group N)

    The patients were allocated if they have forced vital capacity (FVC %) and/or forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1%) of 80% of predicted or more

    Procedure: conventional OLV followed with IL-HFPPV

  • Active comparator
    pulmonary dysfunction (group PD)

    The patients were allocated if they have FVC and/or FEV1 of 50%-79% of predicted

    Procedure: conventional OLV followed with IL-HFPPV

Interventions

  • Procedureconventional OLV followed with IL-HFPPV

    The patients' lungs were mechanically ventilated with intermittent positive pressure ventilation using fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) of 0.5 in air, tidal volume (VT) of 8 mL/kg, inspiratory to expiratory \[I: E\] ratio of 1:2.5, zero positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), respiratory rate (R.R) was adjusted to achieve an arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) 35-45 mm Hg and peak inspiratory pressures were limited to 35 cm H2O. After pleurotomy, OLV was initiated with the same ventilatory settings for the dependent lung. After 30 min, the non-dependent collapsed lung was ventilated using HFPPV mode (IL-HFPPV) with another identical ventilator, with an internal circuit of low compliance, using FiO2 of 0.5 in air, VT 3 mL/kg, I: E ratio \<0.3 and R.R 60 breaths/min.

    Also known as: KONTRON ABT 5300 ventilator, UK

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Primary outcome variables included right ventricular function (REF, RVEDVI, and RVSWI).

    Time frame: before (Baseline) and10 min after induction of anesthesia during two-lung ventilation, 15 and 30 min after OLV, 15, 30, 60 min after IL-HFPPV, and 15 min after resuming of two-lung ventilation (TLV

Secondary outcomes

  1. Secondary outcome variables were hemodynamic parameters (HR, MAP, CI, SVI, and PVRI), oxygenation parameters (DO2, VO2, and Qs:Qt) and surgical field conditions.

    Time frame: before (Baseline) and10 min after induction of anesthesia during two-lung ventilation, 15 and 30 min after OLV, 15, 30, 60 min after IL-HFPPV, and 15 min after resuming of two-lung ventilation (TLV)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Cardiothoracic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt
    Al Mansurah, DK, Egypt
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Timeline

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Registered
Nov 24, 2009
First posted
Nov 25, 2009
Start
Feb 2004
Primary completionActual
Dec 2006
CompletionActual
Feb 2007
Last update
May 28, 2010
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01019993
Lead sponsor
King Faisal University
Collaborators
Mansoura University
First posted
Nov 25, 2009
Start date
Feb 2004
Primary completion
Dec 2006
Completion
Feb 2007
Last update
May 28, 2010

Study contacts

Mohamed R El Tahan, M.D.
principal investigator · Anaesthesia and Surgical ICU, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt (current affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical ICU, Faculty of Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, KSA
Reda A. Hamad, M.D.
study chair · Cardiothoracic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt (current affiliation: Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Riyadh, KSA

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No
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