• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · May 2018

    Nasal high-flow oxygen therapy improves arterial oxygenation during one-lung ventilation in non-intubated thoracoscopic surgery.

    • Man-Ling Wang, Ming-Hui Hung, Jin-Shing Chen, Hsao-Hsun Hsu, and Ya-Jung Cheng.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 May 1; 53 (5): 1001-1006.

    ObjectivesIntraoperative hypoxaemia during one-lung ventilation (OLV) remains a major concern in thoracic surgery. Non-intubated video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) involves a greater risk of consequent emergent conversion to endotracheal intubation. Transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilatory exchange (THRIVE) has recently been reported to be beneficial for higher oxygen reserves during difficult intubations and for enhancing postoperative recovery after thoracic surgery. However, the effects of THRIVE on oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination before and during OLV in non-intubated VATS have not been investigated.MethodsBetween September 2016 and October 2016, 30 patients underwent non-intubated VATS for lung tumour and were maintained with THRIVE at a flow of 20 l/min. These patients were compared with a historical control group comprising 30 patients who were maintained with oxygen masks at an oxygen flow of 10 l/min using a propensity score matching algorithm between September 2015 and July 2016.ResultsThe preoperative arterial oxygen tension was significantly higher in patients maintained with THRIVE than it was in patients maintained with oxygen masks (mean 416.0 vs 265.9 mmHg, P < 0.01). During OLV, arterial oxygen tension remained significantly higher in the THRIVE group than in the oxygen mask group (mean 207.0 vs 127.8 mmHg, P = 0.01). The arterial carbon dioxide tension was comparable before and during OLV.ConclusionsThe results indicated that THRIVE effectively increases the oxygen reserve both during OLV and after anaesthesia. Furthermore, non-intubated VATS is safer if THRIVE with flow adjustment is incorporated into a minimally invasive surgical approach, although carbon dioxide elimination is not facilitated.

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