Lung Recruitment Assessment With Lung Ultrasound In Pediatric Patient Scheduled For Laparoscopic Surgery

Hospital Privado de Comunidad de Mar del Plata

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atelectasis

Treatments: Other: Lung recruitment maneuver

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02824146

Hospital Privado de Comunidad

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anesthesia-induced atelectasis is a well-known entity observed in approximately 68-100% of pediatric patients undergoing general anesthesia. The collapse of dependent lung zones starts with anesthesia induction but can persist for hours or even days after surgery. Such anesthesia-related atelectasis has a number of negative clinical consequences such as the impairment of arterial blood oxygenation and lung mechanics as well as the predisposition for ventilator-associated lung injury. The adjustment of ventilator settings for preventing the occurrence of atelectasis and for reducing pulmonary complications remains controversial.

Lung sonography (LUS) plays an important role in diagnosing pulmonary diseases in children, including atelectasis of different origins. LUS has demonstrated its high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing anesthesia-induced atelectasis in children.

Full description

Compare lung aeration between two different mechanical ventilation strategies (protective mechanical ventilation and recruitment maneuvers) in pediatric patients scheduled for abdominal laparoscopic surgery using ultrasound imaging and a four-point-aeration score to assess the lung aeration.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 months to 7 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written informed consent by parents.
• Patients aged 6 months to 7 years old
• Scheduled for abdominal laparoscopic surgery
• American Society of Anesthesiologists classification: physical status I-II

Exclusion criteria

• Acute airway infection
• Cardiovascular and or pulmonary disease
• Previous thoracic procedure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients received standard protective mechanical ventilation during all surgery, with tidal volumen 6 ml/kg and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) level of 5 (centimeter of water) cmH2O.

Recruitment maneuver group

Experimental group

Description:

Patient received a lung recruitment maneuver after pneumoperitoneum insufflation. The recruitment maneuver consists in 10 breaths at 30/15 cmH2O of plateau pressure and PEEP, respectively. Then, the ventilatory settings back to protective ventilation but adding 8 cmH2O of PEEP to keep the lungs open.

Treatment:

Other: Lung recruitment maneuver