• Jalde Francesca Campoccia FC From the Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Services and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna; Department of Ph, Fredrik Jalde, Peter V Sackey, Peter J Radell, Staffan Eksborg, and Mats K E B Wallin.
• From the Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Services and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (FCJ); Maquet Critical Care (FJ); Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Services and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute (PVS); Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (PJR); Department of Women's and Children's Health (SE); Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm; Maquet Critical Care, Solna, Sweden (MKEBW).
• Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2016 Apr 1; 33 (4): 283-91.

BackgroundSpontaneous breathing during mechanical ventilation improves gas exchange by redistribution of ventilation to dependent lung regions. Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) supports spontaneous breathing in proportion to the electrical activity of the diaphragm (EAdi). NAVA has never been used in the operating room and no studies have systematically addressed the influence of different anaesthetic drugs on EAdi.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to test the feasibility of NAVA under sedation and anaesthesia with two commonly used anaesthetics, sevoflurane and propofol, with and without remifentanil, and to study their effects on EAdi and breathing mechanics.DesignA crossover study with factorial design of NAVA during sedation and anaesthesia in pigs.SettingUniversity basic science laboratory in Uppsala, Sweden, from March 2009 to February 2011.AnimalsNine juvenile pigs were used for the experiment.InterventionsThe lungs were ventilated using NAVA while the animals were sedated and anaesthetised with continuous low-dose ketamine combined with sevoflurane and propofol, with and without remifentanil.Main Outcome MeasuresDuring the last 5  min of each study period (total eight steps) EAdi, breathing pattern, blood gas analysis, neuromechanical efficiency (NME) and neuroventilatory efficiency (NVE) during NAVA were determined.ResultsEAdi was preserved and normoventilation was reached with both sevoflurane and propofol during sedation as well as anaesthesia. Tidal volume (Vt) was significantly lower with sevoflurane anaesthesia than with propofol. NME was significantly higher with sevoflurane than with propofol during anaesthesia with and without remifentanil. NVE was significantly higher with sevoflurane than with propofol during sedation and anaesthesia.ConclusionNAVA is feasible during ketamine-propofol and ketamine-sevoflurane anaesthesia in pigs. Sevoflurane promotes lower Vt, and affects NME and NVE less than propofol. Our data warrant studies of NAVA in humans undergoing anaesthesia.

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