• Tommaso Mauri, Giuseppe Foti, Carla Fornari, Giacomo Grasselli, Riccardo Pinciroli, Federica Lovisari, Daniela Tubiolo, Carlo Alberto Volta, Savino Spadaro, Roberto Rona, Egle Rondelli, Paolo Navalesi, Eugenio Garofalo, Rihard Knafelj, Vojka Gorjup, Riccardo Colombo, Andrea Cortegiani, Jian-Xin Zhou, Rocco D'Andrea, Italo Calamai, Vidal GonzálezÁnxelaÁHospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Oriol Roca, Domenico Luca Grieco, Tomas Jovaisa, Dimitrios Bampalis, Tobias Becher, Denise Battaglini, Huiqing Ge, Mariana Luz, Jean-Michel Constantin, Marco Ranieri, Claude Guerin, Jordi Mancebo, Paolo Pelosi, Roberto Fumagalli, Laurent Brochard, Antonio Pesenti, and PROTECTION Trial Collaborators.
• Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency, Foundation IRCCS Cà Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: tommaso.mauri@unimi.it.
• Chest. 2021 Apr 1; 159 (4): 1426-1436.

BackgroundSigh is a cyclic brief recruitment maneuver: previous physiologic studies showed that its use could be an interesting addition to pressure support ventilation to improve lung elastance, decrease regional heterogeneity, and increase release of surfactant.Research QuestionIs the clinical application of sigh during pressure support ventilation (PSV) feasible?Study Design And MethodsWe conducted a multicenter noninferiority randomized clinical trial on adult intubated patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure or ARDS undergoing PSV. Patients were randomized to the no-sigh group and treated by PSV alone, or to the sigh group, treated by PSV plus sigh (increase in airway pressure to 30 cm H2O for 3 s once per minute) until day 28 or death or successful spontaneous breathing trial. The primary end point of the study was feasibility, assessed as noninferiority (5% tolerance) in the proportion of patients failing assisted ventilation. Secondary outcomes included safety, physiologic parameters in the first week from randomization, 28-day mortality, and ventilator-free days.ResultsTwo-hundred and fifty-eight patients (31% women; median age, 65 [54-75] years) were enrolled. In the sigh group, 23% of patients failed to remain on assisted ventilation vs 30% in the no-sigh group (absolute difference, -7%; 95% CI, -18% to 4%; P = .015 for noninferiority). Adverse events occurred in 12% vs 13% in the sigh vs no-sigh group (P = .852). Oxygenation was improved whereas tidal volume, respiratory rate, and corrected minute ventilation were lower over the first 7 days from randomization in the sigh vs no-sigh group. There was no significant difference in terms of mortality (16% vs 21%; P = .337) and ventilator-free days (22 [7-26] vs 22 [3-25] days; P = .300) for the sigh vs no-sigh group.InterpretationAmong hypoxemic intubated ICU patients, application of sigh was feasible and without increased risk.Trial RegistryClinicalTrials.gov; No.: NCT03201263; URL: www.clinicaltrials.gov.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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