Abstract
Oesophageal balloon calibration improves the oesophageal pressure (Pes) assessment during invasive controlled mechanical ventilation. The primary aim of the present investigation was to ascertain the feasibility of oesophageal balloon calibration during pressure support ventilation (PSV). Secondarily, the calibrated Pes (Pescal) was compared to uncalibrated one acquired at 4 ml-filling volume (PesV4), as per manufacturer recommendation. After a naso-gastric tube equipped with oesophageal balloon was correctly positioned in 21 adult patients undergoing invasive volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, the balloon was progressively inflated, applying a series of end-inspiratory and end-expiratory holds at each filling volume during VCV and PSV. Upon optimal balloon filling volume (Vbest) was identified, Pescal was computed by correcting the Pes measured at Vbest for the oesophageal wall pressure elicited at same filling volume. Finally, end-expiratory and end-inspiratory PesV4 were recorded too. A total of 42 calibrations, 21 per ventilatory mode, were performed. Vbest was 1.9 ± 1.6 ml in VCV and 1.7 ± 1.6 ml in PSV (p = 0.5217). PesV4 was overestimated compared to Pescal at end-expiration and end-inspiration (p <0.0001 for all comparisons) in both VCV (13.4 ± 3.4 cmH2O and 15.4 ± 3 cmH2O vs. 8.5 ± 2.9 cmH2O and 11.4 ± 3 cmH2O) and PSV (14.7 ± 4.2 cmH2O and 17 ± 3.9 cmH2O vs. 8.9 ± 3.4 cmH2O and 12.4 ± 3.9 cmH2O). In PSV, oesophageal balloon calibration is feasible and allows to obtain a reliable Pes assessment compared to uncalibrated approach.
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1 Introduction
Accurate measure of pleural pressure plays an important role in the advanced respiratory monitoring of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in intensive care unit (ICU) [1,2,3]. The oesophageal pressure (Pes) is the most widely accepted measure to estimate the pleural pressure during controlled and assisted mechanical ventilation [4, 5]. However, the reliability of Pes monitoring depends on several factors related to mechanical properties of the thoraco-abdominal system [6, 7], to the applied airway pressure, and to the model of oesophageal balloon employed [8]. Thus, a calibration procedure that could minimize the influence of confounding factors affecting Pes measurements might represent a useful achievement for clinical management of intubated patients [9]. Recently, it has been described that, in hypoxemic patients undergoing invasive controlled mechanical ventilation, a calibration technique improves the accuracy of Pes assessment [10]. Calibration consists of two stages aiming to (1) detect the optimal oesophageal balloon filling volume (Vbest) and (2) correct Pes for the artefacts deriving from the oesophageal wall reaction and the elastic recoil of the balloon. The calibrated Pes (Pescal), obtained following this procedure [10], leads to a more accurate computation of transpulmonary pressure [2,3,4,5]. Transpulmonary pressure is particularly useful in the monitoring of lung overdistention and to set positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) [11,12,13]. However, the body of evidence attesting the reliability of Pescal values was obtained only during controlled ventilation [10, 14,15,16], while it remains unclear whether the oesophageal balloon calibration procedure is feasible during invasive assisted ventilation. As matter of fact, during pressure support ventilation (PSV), the patient’s respiratory muscles interact with the ventilator in a variable fashion. Consequently, breath-by-breath changes in lung volume and muscular pressure make the oesophageal balloon calibration particularly challenging during PSV.
The primary aim of the present investigation was to assess the feasibility of the oesophageal balloon calibration during PSV. Secondarily, measures obtained by the calibrated approach during PSV were compared to those obtained during volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) as reference. Finally, the Pescal values were compared to uncalibrated Pes values (PesV4) acquired at a filling volume of 4 ml (V4), as per manufacturer recommendations.
2 Methods
2.1 Patients
This analysis was conducted on patients enrolled in a study evaluating the impact of a calibrated approach on oesophageal and transpulmonary pressure monitoring during Sigh breath. The study was approved by ethical committee of “Maggiore della Carità” University Hospital, Novara, Italy (CE 111/18) and registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov, (number NCT03721237). The informed consent was obtained from all subjects, according to local regulations.
Adult patients admitted to ICU with diagnosis of hypoxemic acute respiratory failure [17] and undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation were enrolled. Exclusion criteria were: (1) contraindications to naso-gastric tube placement, (2) pregnancy, (3) history of severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, (4) dynamic hyperinflation, (5) hemodynamic instability (i.e. need for continuous infusion of epinephrine or vasopressin, dopamine > 5 µg/kg/min or norepinephrine > 0.1 µg/kg/min to maintain systolic arterial blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg), (6) previous inclusion in another research protocol.
2.2 Protocol
First, during deep sedation (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale score of − 5), with patients in VCV mode, a special gastric feeding tube equipped with oesophageal balloon (Nutrivent Sidam, Mirandola, MO, Italy), previously deflated and secured with a three-way stopcock, was inserted through the nose/mouth till the stomach was reached. Afterwards, the balloon was connected through polyethylene tubes to a pressure transducer box (KleisTEK Engineering, Bari, Italy). The balloon was inflated at a volume of 4 ml, the intra-gastric position was confirmed by positive deflection during gentle external manual epigastric compression. Subsequently, the catheter was slowly withdrawn into the mid-lower third of oesophagus, as indicated by the appearance of cardiac artefacts on the oesophageal pressure waveform [4]. The calibration procedure was started to identify Vbest: the oesophageal balloon was progressively inflated with increasing volume from 0 to 8 ml, assuring a complete deflation before each inflation volume. At each volume, static end-expiratory and end-inspiratory Pes values were acquired by applying inspiratory and expiratory holds of 5 s. Hence, end-expiratory and end-inspiratory Pes to balloon filling volume curves were obtained and analysed. On the end-expiratory curve, the intermediate linear section was graphically identified together with its lower (Vmin) and upper (Vmax) inflection points. Vbest was chosen within this range of filling volumes as the smallest one associated with the largest respiratory tidal Pes swing (ΔPesT). Then, after the balloon calibration was completed, the validation occlusion test was performed with Vbest and V4, by applying two external compressions on the rib cage during an expiratory hold. Simultaneous deflections of airway (ΔPaw) and oesophageal pressure (ΔPes) were compared (occlusion validation test) [5, 18,19,20,21]: the test was positive if the ratio of oesophageal to airway pressure deflections (ΔPes/ΔPaw) was in the 0.8–1.2 range. Afterwards, sedation was reduced (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale score of − 3/− 2) and, the patients, whenever able to trigger the ventilator, were switched to PSV. The oesophageal balloon was again progressively filled with volumes ranging between 0 and 8 ml, deflating it before each volume, and end-expiratory Pes values were collected during 3-s inspiratory and expiratory holds. During the hold, it was mandatory to check for the patient’s respiratory muscles relaxation, as proved by a flat and stable plateau of the Pes and airway pressure [4, 5]. After the end-expiratory Pes to balloon filling volume curve reconstruction and Vmin and Vmax identification [10], at variance from VCV, Vbest was identified as the oesophageal balloon filling volume associated with the highest ΔPesT to the related tidal volume (VT) ratio (ΔPesT/VT) (Fig. 1). As a matter of fact, during PSV, the VT is not constant as during VCV and absolute ΔPesT values might not be derived from best filling but rather from larger VT [24]. Finally, the occlusion test for validation in actively breathing patients was carried out as previously described to calculate ΔPes/ΔPaw ratio at Vbest and V4 [4, 5, 21].
To calculate Pescal, the oesophageal wall reaction was calculated as previously suggested [10]: as balloon under-filling occurs at volumes lower than Vmin, while volumes higher than Vmax induce balloon overstretch [10, 25], oesophageal elastance is computed as the slope of the Pes to balloon volume curve between Vmin and Vmax [10, 26]. Accordingly, the actual pressure of oesophageal wall at Vbest is [10]:
Finally, Pescal computation is obtained by following equation [10]:
Also, end-expiratory and end-inspiratory uncalibrated PesV4 were acquired and collected during VCV and PSV.
Ventilation settings were: (1) during VCV, VT ranged between 6 and 8 ml/kg of predicted body weight with clinical positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), respiratory rate was chosen to maintain an end-tidal carbon dioxide tension of 35–45 mmHg, and inspired oxygen fraction was set to achieve a peripheral saturation of 92–96%; (2) during PSV, with patients able to trigger the ventilator, maintaining the same PEEP and inspired oxygen fraction levels previously set, the pressure support was selected to get VT similar to VCV. The sedation plan was managed to achieve a target Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale score of − 5 in VCV and − 3/− 2 in PSV.
In case of hemodynamic instability (i.e., mean arterial blood pressure < 60 mmHg despite fluid bolus), tachyarrhythmia, agitation (i.e., Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale score > 1), oxygen saturation < 90%, peak airway pressure > 40 cmH2O, and increment of the body temperature (≥ 38 °C core) the study protocol was stopped.
2.3 Measurement
During all study phases, upon a heated pneumotachograph (Fleisch no. 2; Fleisch, Lausanne, Switzerland) was mounted between endotracheal tube and respiratory circuit, flow and airway pressure were obtained. Esophageal and gastric pressure were acquired through the aforementioned catheter. Subsequently, flow and pressure waveforms in the airway, esophagus, and stomach were recorded, digitalized and collected via a specific acquisition system on a personal computer (ICU Lab, KleisTEK Engineering, Bari, Italy) at each study step. The calibration data were computed through a dedicated sheet (Excel, Microsoft, Washington, USA).
After enrolment, demographic and clinical characteristics such as sex, age, body mass index, predicted body weight, days of mechanical ventilation and admission diagnosis were obtained for each patient.
2.4 Statistical analysis
No power calculation was carried out before the study and the sample size was based on the available data from patients enrolled in the trial. Continuous variables are reported as mean and standard deviation. Non-parametric tests were employed to carry out data analysis. Comparison between parameters was assessed using Wilcoxon matched-pairs rank test. Bland–Altman analysis was employed to describe the Pesv4-Pescal difference. In particular, an absolute Pesv4-Pescal difference > 2 cmH2O and > 5 cmH2O was considered clinically relevant and potentially harmful, respectively [10]. Categorical variables, whether dichotomous or nominal, were evaluated with a Fisher’s exact test. For all the comparisons p values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Statistical analyses were conducted using Prism 6.0 software (Graph-pad, California-USA).
3 Results
From November 2018 to May 2019, 21 patients were enrolled and finally analysed for a total of 42 complete calibration procedures, 21 in VCV and 21 in PSV, respectively (Fig. 2). Demographic characteristics are presented in Table 1, while the mechanical ventilation settings are reported in Table 2.
Figure 3 depicts the results from the occlusion tests during VCV and PSV. ΔPes/ΔPaw was 0.97 ± 0.12 at Vbest vs. 1.24 ± 0.47 at V4 during VCV (p = 0.0108) (Fig. 3a), while no significant difference was detected between the two volumes during PSV (0.91 ± 0.1 vs. 0.88 ± 0.21, p = 0.7012) (Fig. 3c). However, while at Vbest ΔPes/ΔPaw ranged between 0.8 and 1.2 in all patients both during VCV and PSV, at V4 only 12/21 (57%) during VCV (p = 0.0013) (Fig. 3b) and 11/21 (52%) subjects during PSV (p = 0.0005) (Fig. 3d) passed the occlusion test.
As expected, ΔPesT during VCV and ΔPesT/VT during PSV were higher at Vbest vs. those computed at V4 (ΔPesT, 2.9 ± 1.2 cmH2O vs. 1.9 ± 1.2 cmH2O; ΔPesT/VT, 7.7 ± 3.8 cmH2O/l vs. 4.5 ± 2.7 cmH2O/l; p < 0.0001 for both comparisons).
In Table 3 are reported the data from calibrated and uncalibrated approach for Pes assessment during VCV and PSV. Vmin, Vmax, and Vbest remained unchanged at each study step. The oesophageal elastance did not differ between the two ventilatory modes and oesophageal wall pressure was similar during VCV and PSV at both Vbest and V4. Nevertheless, irrespective from the ventilation mode, the oesophageal wall pressure was higher at V4 compared to that computed at Vbest (during VCV, p = 0.0006; during PSV, p < 0.0001). End-expiratory and end-inspiratory Pesv4 were significantly higher compared to Pescal during both study phases (p < 0.0001 for all comparisons).
Difference between PesV4 and Pescal at both end-expiration and end-inspiration are reported in Figs. 4 and 5 (Bland–Altman analyses). End-expiratory PesV4−Pescal difference was 4.9 ± 2 cmH2O during VCV (Fig. 4a) and 5.8 ± 2.3 cmH2O during PSV (p = 0.0175) (Fig. 4b). During both ventilation modes, this difference could be considered clinically relevant in the totality (100%) of cases. In addition, it was deemed potentially harmful in 10/21 (48%) patients during VCV and 12/21 (57%) during PSV. At end-inspiration, PesV4-Pescal difference during VCV was 4 ± 1.5 cmH2O (Fig. 5a), while during PSV was 4.6 ± 1.9 cmH2O (p = 0.1790) (Fig. 5b). This difference reached clinical relevance in 19/21 (90%) cases during VCV and 20/21 (95%) during PSV. Moreover, it was potentially harmful in 6/21 (29%) and 9/21 (43%) cases during VCV and PSV, respectively.
4 Discussion
The main findings of present investigation can be summarized as follows: (1) the oesophageal balloon calibration was feasible during PSV; (2) as opposed to the recommended filling volume, the optimal volume selected by the calibrated approach resulted in significant more patients with positive occlusion test; (3) Vbest during PSV was similar to the one employed in VCV with the same PEEP and similar VT; (4) PesV4 was overestimated compared to Pescal at both end-expiration and end-inspiration because of a more pronounced oesophageal wall reaction elicited by the uncalibrated conventional approach.
Oesophageal balloon calibration has been employed to increase accuracy of Pes assessment in passive patient undergoing invasive controlled mechanical ventilation [10]. This is a 2-steps procedure consisting of (1) identification of optimal balloon filling volume in the presence of a constant tidal volume (2) correction for oesophageal wall reaction and balloon elastic recoil. PSV is the most used ventilation mode that implies an interaction between patient’s muscles and the ventilator with consequent breath-to-breath variability of tidal volume. Thus, the oesophageal balloon calibration is particularly challenging during PSV because of the patient’s active contribution to respiration. In particular, high respiratory rate and the impossibility to assure respiratory muscle relaxation during an occlusion hinder the calibration process during assisted ventilation [4, 5]. Taking into account all of these, we conducted the present study in selected patients, and we described that it was possible to obtain extemporary muscle relaxation during holds in all of them. Thus, we performed a series of complete oesophageal pressure calibration, as previously described, in 21 patients for a total of 42 procedures, 21 during VCV, as a reference, and 21 during PSV. Moreover, for each calibration procedure, all of the volumes previously proposed for this specific balloon employed could be explored. Description of the feasibility of such calibration manoeuvre during PSV might greatly improve clinical use of calibrated oesophageal pressure values, with more precise assessment of transpulmonary pressure and the risk of self-inflicted lung injury.
The validation occlusion test is the reference method to validate in clinical practice accuracy of Pes measures [5]. During this test, the optimal position and filling volume of the oesophageal balloon is cleared when simultaneous Pes and Paw swings of equal entity are observed [21]. Recently, it has been demonstrated that, in intubated acute respiratory failure subjects undergoing VCV, Vbest (i.e., the filling volume with largest ΔPesT) allowed to achieve the best ΔPes/ΔPaw value and the higher occlusion test success rate, as compared other oesophageal balloon filling volumes, like the one recommended by the manufacturer [10]. In line with these findings, here we show that when Vbest was employed during VCV and PSV, the percentage of subjects who passed the test was higher compared to V4. In terms of reproducibility, at Vbest, the ΔPes/ΔPaw values we obtained during VCV and PSV corresponded to those measured in intubated non-paralyzed subjects with an optimally located oesophageal balloon [19]. However, at variance from the ΔPes/ΔPaw reduction observed moving from VCV to PSV by Chiumello et al. [27], in our population the ratio remained substantially unchanged. This could be explained by the fact that for Pes assessment we applied a calibrated approach to correct for artefacts both during controlled and assisted ventilation. In our series, the occlusion test carried out at V4 performed worse than that observed at Vbest because the average ΔPes/ΔPaw during VCV almost reached 1.2, the defined upper limit of failure. Finally, the occlusion test success rate at V4 ranged between 60 and 50% during both modes, confirming previous findings [10].
Vbest was the volume associated with optimal transmission of ΔPesT in passively ventilated patients. In our study, during PSV, Vbest was chosen as the filling volume able to maximize the ΔPesT/VT ratio and was compared to that observed during VCV. Average Vbest was similar among the two ventilation modes and was always lower than the recommended volume of 4 ml. This might have been the consequence of different factors: (1) the VT range target was similar during VCV and PSV; (2) no modifications of the mechanical properties of the respiratory system occurred during the two study steps; (3) sedation was tailored switching from VCV to PSV to achieve and maintain the prefixed target of VT during assisted breath. Thus, Vbest selected during VCV might be used during PSV if VT and PEEP remain similar.
In our series, Vbest was lower than volumes previously reported in ICU patients [10, 28]. However, in one study [28], the oesophageal balloon volume was chosen according to previous evaluations obtained in vitro rather than by accurate calibration. In the other [10], the demographic characteristics of study population (i.e. higher body mass index) and ventilator settings (i.e. higher PEEP) could explain the difference in Vbest observed.
Pescal computation requires the correction for the artefacts deriving from the oesophageal wall reaction and the balloon recoil pressure [10]. Consequently, uncalibrated Pes is usually overestimated in respect to the calibrated one [10, 14, 25]. In keeping with previous works [10, 14, 25], in our investigation, PesV4 was higher than Pescal during both controlled and assisted ventilation because V4 induced a greater oesophageal wall reaction compared to Vbest. The PesV4 − Pescal difference was analysed at both end-expiration and end-inspiration. This frequently exceeded the threshold indicated for clinical relevance and potential harm at both end-expiration and end-inspiration, respectively. This might have a relevant impact in respiratory monitoring and mechanical ventilation settings: in the presence of a filling volume of 4 ml, mistakes regarding measure of lung overdistention and the PEEP selection in course of Pes-driven ventilation could frequently occur [12, 29, 30].
Several limitations require to be disclosed. First, this study has a relatively small sample size; however, our study population size is line with the “rule of thumbs” recommendations referring to the pilot study planning [31]. Second, only one type of Pes catheter was employed. Nevertheless, the device employed in our investigation has been widely used in previous clinical and bench studies [8, 10, 29, 32]. Moreover, the device employed in our study is a polyfunctional catheter combining a feeding tube with the oesophageal balloon [28] that might represent the easiest for clinical implementation of Pes. Lastly, the Pes calibration requires to obtain a flat and stable plateau in the different pressure traces during holds [10, 22], but, in spontaneously breathing patients with high respiratory drive, relaxation might be difficult to obtain [23]. Sedation might have played a key role in our study as we obtained relaxation in all patients, indeed, the effects of sedation on the breathing pattern and neural drive have been well-documented in course of assisted ventilation [33, 34].
5 Conclusions
The oesophageal balloon calibration is feasible in ICU patients undergoing PSV and allows to obtain a reliable Pes assessment also in this setting. Further investigations are needed to evaluate the impact of its application in different clinical conditions.
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The present investigation has been conducted employing institutional funding (Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy) for oesophageal catheters purchasing.
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Cammarota, G., Verdina, F., Santangelo, E. et al. Oesophageal balloon calibration during pressure support ventilation: a proof of concept study. J Clin Monit Comput 34, 1223–1231 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-019-00436-3
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