• Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2013

    Mechanical Ventilation Strategies in Children With Acute Lung Injury: A Survey on Stated Practice Pattern.

    • Miriam Santschi, Adrienne G Randolph, Peter C Rimensberger, Philippe Jouvet, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Mechanical Ventilation Investigators, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Network, and European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care.
    • 1Department of Pediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada. 2Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. 3Division of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 4Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Canada.
    • Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2013 Sep 1;14(7):e332-7.

    ObjectivesThe aim of this survey was to determine North American and European pediatric intensivists' knowledge and stated practice in the management of children with acute respiratory distress syndrome with regard to mechanical ventilation settings; blood gas and SO2 targets; and use of adjunctive treatments at sites where actual practice had just been assessed.Design And SettingA survey using three case scenarios to assess mechanical ventilation strategies used in children with acute respiratory distress syndrome was sent out toward the end of data collection to all centers participating in the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Mechanical Ventilation study (59 PICUs in 12 countries). For each case scenario, intensivists were asked to report the optimal mechanical ventilation parameters; blood gas and SO2 acceptable targets; and threshold for considering high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, and other adjunctive treatments.ParticipantsFifty-four pediatric intensivists, representing 47 centers from 11 countries.InterventionsNone.Measurements And Main ResultsMany pediatric intensivists reported using a tidal volume of 5-8 mL/kg (88-96%) and none reported using a tidal volume above 10 mL/kg. On average, the upper threshold of positive inspiratory pressure at which intensivists would consider another ventilation mode was 35 cm H2O. Permissive hypercapnia and mild hypoxemia (SO2 as low as 88%) was considered tolerable by many pediatric intensivists. Finally, a large proportion of pediatric intensivists reported they would use adjunctive treatments (nitric oxide, prone position, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, surfactant, steroids, β-agonists) if the patient's condition worsened.ConclusionsAlthough in theory, many pediatric intensivists agreed with adult recommendations to ventilate with lower tidal volumes and pressure limits, the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Mechanical Ventilation data revealed that over 25% of pediatric patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome at many of these practice sites were ventilated with tidal volumes above 10 mL/kg and that high positive inspiratory pressure levels (> 35 mm Hg) were often tolerated.

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