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Extended high-frequency partial liquid ventilation in lung injury: gas exchange, injury quantification, and vapor loss

¹Division of Pediatric Critical Care and ⁵Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, ⁴University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0386; ³Department of Pathology and ²Critical Care Research Laboratories and Department of Anesthesia, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Submitted 8 July 2002 ; accepted in final form 6 May 2003

High-frequency oscillatory ventilation with perflubron (PFB) reportedly improves pulmonary mechanics and gas exchange and attenuates lung injury. We explored PFB evaporative loss kinetics, intrapulmonary PFB distribution, and dosing strategies during 15 h of high-frequency oscillation (HFO)-partial liquid ventilation (PLV). After saline lavage lung injury, 15 swine were rescued with high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (n = 5), or in addition received 10 ml/kg PFB delivered to dependent lung [n = 5, PLV-compartmented (PLV(C))] or 10 ml/kg distributed uniformly within the lung [n = 5, PLV(U)]. In the PLV(C) group, PFB vapor loss was replaced. ANOVA revealed an unsustained improvement in oxygenation index in the PLV(U) group (P = 0.04); the reduction in oxygenation index correlated with PFB losses. Although tissue myeloperoxidase activity was reduced globally by HFO-PLV (P < 0.01) and regional lung injury scores (lung injury scores) in dependent lung were improved (P = 0.05), global lung injury scores were improved by HFO-PLV (P < 0.05) only in atelectasis, edema, and alveolar distension but not in cumulative score. In our model, markers of inflammation and lung injury were attenuated by HFO-PLV, and it appears that uniform intrapulmonary PFB distribution optimized gas exchange during HFO-PLV; additionally, monitoring PFB evaporative loss appears necessary to stabilize intrapulmonary PFB volume.

acute respiratory distress syndrome; high-frequency oscillatory ventilation; perfluorochemical; perflubron; myeloperoxidase activity

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