• Intensive care medicine · Dec 2009

    Effect of closed endotracheal suction in high-frequency ventilated premature infants measured with electrical impedance tomography.

    • Mariëtte B van Veenendaal, Martijn Miedema, Frans H C de Jongh, Johanna H van der Lee, Inez Frerichs, and Anton H van Kaam.
    • Department of Neonatology (H3-144), Emma Children's Hospital AMC, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • Intensive Care Med. 2009 Dec 1;35(12):2130-4.

    ObjectiveTo determine the global and regional changes in lung volume during and after closed endotracheal tube (ETT) suction in high-frequency ventilated preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).DesignProspective observational clinical study.SettingNeonatal intensive care unit.PatientsEleven non-muscle relaxed preterm infants with RDS ventilated with open lung high-frequency ventilation (HFV).InterventionsClosed ETT suction.Measurements And ResultsChanges in global and regional lung volume were measured with electrical impedance tomography. ETT suction resulted in an acute loss of lung volume followed by spontaneous recovery with a median residual loss of 3.3% of the maximum volume loss. The median stabilization time was 8 s. At the regional level, the lung volume changes during and after ETT suction were heterogeneous in nature.ConclusionsClosed ETT suction causes an acute, transient and heterogeneous loss of lung volume in premature infants with RDS treated with open lung HFV.

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