• Intensive care medicine · Mar 1996

    Clinical Trial

    Effects of rapid permissive hypercapnia on hemodynamics, gas exchange, and oxygen transport and consumption during mechanical ventilation for the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    • J B Thorens, P Jolliet, M Ritz, and J C Chevrolet.
    • Medical ICU, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Intensive Care Med. 1996 Mar 1;22(3):182-91.

    ObjectiveTo measure the effects of rapid permissive hypercapnia on hemodynamics and gas exchange in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).DesignProspective study.Setting18-bed, medical intensive care unit, university hospital.Patients11 mechanically ventilated ARDS patients.InterventionPatients were sedated and ventilated in the controlled mode. Hypercapnia was induced over a 30-60 min period by decreasing tidal volume until pH decreased to 7.2 and/or P50 increased by 7.5 mmHg. Settings were then maintained for 2 h.ResultsMinute ventilation was reduced from 13.5 +/- 6.1 to 8.2 +/- 4.1 l/min (mean +/- SD), PaCO2 increased (40.3 +/- 6.6 to 59.3 +/- 7.2 mmHg), pH decreased (7.40 +/- 0.05 to 7.26 +/- 0.05), and P50 increased (26.3 +/- 2.02 to 31.1 +/- 2.2 mmHg) (p < 0.05). Systemic vascular resistance decreased (865 +/- 454 to 648 +/- 265 dyne.s.cm-5, and cardiac index (CI) increased (4 +/- 2.4 to 4.7 +/- 2.4 l/min/m2) (p < 0.05). Mean systemic arterial pressure was unchanged. Pulmonary vascular resistance was unmodified, and mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPAP) increased (29 +/- 5 to 32 +/- 6 mmHg, p < 0.05). PaO2 remained unchanged, while saturation decreased (93 +/- 3 to 90 +/- 3%, p < 0.05), requiring an increase in FIO2 from 0.56 to 0.64 in order to maintain an SaO2 > 90%. PvO2 increased (36.5 +/- 5.7 to 43.2 +/- 6.1 mmHg, p < 0.05), while saturation was unmodified. The arteriovenous O2 content difference was unaltered. Oxygen transport (DO2) increased (545 +/- 240 to 621 +/- 274 ml/min/m2, p < 0.05), while the O2 consumption and extraction ratio did not change significantly. Venous admixture (Qva/Qt) increased (26.3 +/- 12.3 to 32.8 +/- 13.2, p < 0.05).ConclusionsThese data indicate that acute hypercapnia increases DO2 and O2 off-loading capacity in ARDS patients with normal plasma lactate, without increasing O2 extraction. Whether this would be beneficial in patients with elevated lactate levels, indicating tissue hypoxia, remains to be determined. Furthermore, even though hypercapnia was well tolerated, the increase in Qva/Qt, CI, and MPAP should prompt caution in patients with severe hypoxemia, as well as in those with depressed cardiac function and/or severe pulmonary hypertension.

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