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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2009
Comparative StudyAlveolar recruitment strategy and high positive end-expiratory pressure levels do not affect hemodynamics in morbidly obese intravascular volume-loaded patients.
- Stephan H Bohm, Oliver C Thamm, Alexandra von Sandersleben, Katrin Bangert, Thomas E Langwieler, Gerardo Tusman, Tim G Strate, and Thomas G Standl.
- Clinic of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. shb@csem.ch
- Anesth. Analg. 2009 Jul 1;109(1):160-3.
AbstractWe evaluated the effect of the alveolar recruitment strategy and high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on hemodynamics in 20 morbidly obese (body mass index 50 +/- 9 kg/m2), intravascular volume-loaded patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery. The alveolar recruitment strategy was sequentially performed with and without capnoperitoneum and consisted of an upward PEEP trial, recruitment with 50-60 cm H2O of plateau pressure for 10 breaths, and a downward PEEP trial. Recruitment and high PEEP did not cause significant disturbances in any hemodynamic variable measured by systemic and pulmonary artery catheters. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed no differences in end-diastolic areas or evidence of segmental abnormalities in wall motion.
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