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Diminishing Efficacy of Prone Positioning With Late Application in Evolving Lung Injury
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Diminishing Efficacy of Prone Positioning With Late Application in Evolving Lung Injury

Yi Xin, Kevin Martin, Caio C A Morais, Paolo Delvecchio, Sarah E Gerard, Hooman Hamedani, Jacob Herrmann, Nicholas Abate, Austin Lenart, Shiraz Humayun, …
Critical care medicine, Vol.49(10), pp.e1015-E1024
10/01/2021
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005071
PMCID: PMC8448902
PMID: 33938714
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/8448902View
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Abstract

It is not known how lung injury progression during mechanical ventilation modifies pulmonary responses to prone positioning. We compared the effects of prone positioning on regional lung aeration in late versus early stages of lung injury. Prospective, longitudinal imaging study. Research imaging facility at The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) and Medical and Surgical ICUs at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA). Anesthetized swine and patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (acute respiratory distress syndrome). Lung injury was induced by bronchial hydrochloric acid (3.5 mL/kg) in 10 ventilated Yorkshire pigs and worsened by supine nonprotective ventilation for 24 hours. Whole-lung CT was performed 2 hours after hydrochloric acid (Day 1) in both prone and supine positions and repeated at 24 hours (Day 2). Prone and supine images were registered (superimposed) in pairs to measure the effects of positioning on the aeration of each tissue unit. Two patients with early acute respiratory distress syndrome were compared with two patients with late acute respiratory distress syndrome, using electrical impedance tomography to measure the effects of body position on regional lung mechanics. Gas exchange and respiratory mechanics worsened over 24 hours, indicating lung injury progression. On Day 1, prone positioning reinflated 18.9% ± 5.2% of lung mass in the posterior lung regions. On Day 2, position-associated dorsal reinflation was reduced to 7.3% ± 1.5% (p < 0.05 vs Day 1). Prone positioning decreased aeration in the anterior lungs on both days. Although prone positioning improved posterior lung compliance in the early acute respiratory distress syndrome patients, it had no effect in late acute respiratory distress syndrome subjects. The effects of prone positioning on lung aeration may depend on the stage of lung injury and duration of prior ventilation; this may limit the clinical efficacy of this treatment if applied late.
Adult Aged Boston Female Humans Longitudinal Studies Lung Injury - complications Lung Injury - diagnostic imaging Lung Injury - physiopathology Male Middle Aged Pennsylvania Positive-Pressure Respiration - methods Prone Position - physiology Prospective Studies Treatment Outcome

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