Back to Journals » Journal of Inflammation Research » Volume 2

Comparisons of different mean airway pressure settings during high-frequency oscillation in inflammatory response to oleic acid-induced lung injury in rabbits

Authors Ono K, Koizumi T, Nakagawa R, Yoshikawa S, Otagiri T

Published 16 March 2009 Volume 2009:2 Pages 21—28

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JIR.S4491

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2



Koichi Ono1, Tomonobu Koizumi2, Rikimaru Nakagawa1, Sumiko Yoshikawa2, Tetsutarou Otagiri1

1Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation; 2First Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Purpose: The present study was designed to examine effects of different mean airway pressure (MAP) settings during high-frequency oscillation (HFO) on oxygenation and inflammatory responses to acute lung injury (ALI) in rabbits.

Methods: Anesthetized rabbits were mechanically ventilated with a conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV) mode (tidal volume 6 ml/kg, inspired oxygen fraction [FIo2] of 1.0, respiratory rate [RR] of 30/min, positive end-expiratory pressure [PEEP] of 5 cmH2O). ALI was induced by intravenous administration of oleic acid (0.08 ml/kg) and the animals were randomly allocated to the following three experimental groups; animals (n = 6) ventilated using the same mode of CMV, or animals ventilated with standard MAP (MAP 10 cmH2O, n = 7), and high MAP (15 cmH2O, n = 6) settings of HFO (Hz 15). The MAP settings were calculated by the inflation limb of the pressure-volume curve during CMV.

Results: HFO with a high MAP setting significantly improved the deteriorated oxygenation during oleic acid-induced ALI and reduced wet/dry ratios, neutrophil counts and interleukin-8 concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, compared to those parameters in CMV and standard MAP-HFO.

Conclusions: These findings suggest that only high MAP setting during HFO could contribute to decreased lung inflammation as well as improved oxygenation during the development of ALI.

Keywords: lung protective ventilation, open lung ventilation, IL-8, neutrophil

Creative Commons License © 2009 The Author(s). This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License. By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms.