Effects of pressure controlled ventilation and volume controlled ventilation on pulmonary function in cardiac surgery patients with cardiopulmonary bypass / Efeitos do suporte ventilatorio com pressão controlada e volume controlado na função pulmonar dos pacientes submetidos a cirurgia cardiaca com circulação extra-corporea

Cristiane Delgado Alves Rodrigues

Postoperative lung injury after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is usually related to the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Many patients undergoing this procedure develop acute lung injury (ALI), and some of them acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Many factors can be directly or indirectly related to the postoperative lung dysfunction frequently seen after cardiac surgery with CPB, including ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI). Thus, many different approaches to mechanical ventilation (MV) have been investigated with the aim of prevent and/or treat postoperative lung injury. Low-tidal-volume mechanical ventilation, plateau pressure limitation, decelerating inspiratory flow, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and a restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategy are recommended to reduce the incidence and the severity of ALI in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB. The main objective of the present study was to compare the effects of pressure controlled ventilation (PCV) versus volume controlled ventilation (VCV) on postoperative pulmonary function and in the incidence of SIRS in patients undergoing scheduled cardiac surgery with CPB. The study population was composed by 22 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB that was mechanically ventilated as following: pressure-controlled ventilation with decelerating inspiratory flow and 5 cmH2O PEEP (Ventilator Esprit - PCV/E; n = 11); volume-controlled ventilation with decelerating inspiratory flow and 5 cmH2O (Ventilator Esprit - VCV/E; n = 5) and volume-controlled ventilation with square-wave inspiratory flow and without PEEP (Ventilator Takaoka - VCV/T; n = 6). This last ventilator is routinely used only in the operating theater. In the intensive care unit (ICU) the patients were ventilated with the ventilator Espirit, by applying SIMV (pressure or volume-controlled) and pressure support ventilation (PSV), that was also used during weaning in all groups. Respiratory monitoring was done with a NICO2 apparatus (Dixtal). Systemic inflammatory response was evaluated by means of serially white blood cells (WBC) counts and serum lactate levels. The following respiratory function variables were serially measured: PaO2/FiO2, PaCO2, expired volume, peak inspiratory pressure, dynamic compliance, airway flow resistance, alveolar ventilation, physiologic dead space ventilation and time on mechanical ventilation. All patients have shown postoperative pulmonary dysfunction and in the group VCV/T a degree of lung injury compatible with ARDS definition was recorded at the end of surgical procedure. PaO2/FiO2 has shown a significant decrease during time course in all three groups (p=0.002), with a nadir at ICU admission. PaCO2 didn t show significant alterations. Expired volume has shown increase only in PCV/E group, by comparing pre- and post-CPB moments (p=0.0081). Peak airway inspiratory pressure has increased during time course in all three groups (p=0.0411), without significant differences between them. Dynamic compliance (C DIN) has shown a decrease during time course in all three groups (p=0.0063), without significant differences between them. Airway flow resistance has increased during time course in all three groups, with statistically significant difference by comparing VCV/T group with the other two (p=0.0012). Physiologic dead space ventilation (VD/VT) and alveolar ventilation (V ALV) have not shown significant alterations during time course or between groups. Serum lactate levels have increased during time course just after CPB in all three groups (p<0.0001), decreasing 48 hours after the surgical procedure, but not returning to preoperative levels. WBC counts have shown a significant time course increase in all three groups (p<0.0001). However, no significant differences in serum lactate levels serum and WBC counts were seen between groups. It was concluded that all patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB have shown some degree of acute pulmonary dysfunction and this complication was not apparently directly related to the mechanical ventilation modality, except by an increase in airway flow resistance and a slight high degree of acute lung injury in the VCV/T group at the end of surgical procedure. Additionally, both systemic inflammatory markers, serum lactate levels and white blood cells counts, have increased during time course in all groups, without significant differences between them

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