Intraoperative Protective Mechanical Ventilation in Patients Requiring Emergency Abdominal Surgery: IMPROVE-2 Multicenter Prospective Randomized Trial
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Low PEEP
- Conditions
- Emergency Abdominal Surgery
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
- Enrollment
- 707
- Locations
- 28
- Primary Endpoint
- Postoperative respiratory failure
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 11 days ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to compare the effects of a strategy aimed at increasing alveolar recruitment (high PEEP levels adjusted according to driving pressure and recruitment maneuvers) with that of a strategy aimed at minimizing alveolar distension (low PEEP level without recruitment maneuver) on postoperative respiratory failure and mortality in patients receiving low VT ventilation during emergency abdominal surgery.
Detailed Description
Emergency abdominal surgery is associated with a high risk of morbidity and mortality. Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are the second most common surgical complication and adversely influence surgical morbidity. Postoperative respiratory failure (PRF) is one of the most serious pulmonary complication. Two hypotheses can be forward by the literature. First, a low VT lung protective ventilation in combination with a strategy aimed at minimizing alveolar distension by using low PEEP level (and without recruitment maneuver) could improve postoperative outcome while reducing the risk of hemodynamic alterations or, second, could increase the risk of PRF compared with a strategy aimed at increasing alveolar recruitment using higher PEEP level adjusted according to driving pressure in combination with recruitment maneuvers in adult patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery. Given the uncertainties, and in order to determine the impact of lung protective ventilation strategies on clinical outcomes of high-risk surgical patients, a randomized trial is needed. Our primary hypothesis is that, during low VT ventilation, a strategy aimed at increasing alveolar recruitment by using high PEEP levels adjusted according to driving pressure in combination with recruitment maneuvers could be more effective at reducing PRF and mortality after emergency abdominal surgery than a strategy aimed at minimizing alveolar distension by using lower PEEP without recruitment maneuver. Given the number of patients for whom the question applies, the prevalence and the burden of PPCs, the study can have significant clinical importance and public health implications.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adult (≥18 years)
- •Patients requiring emergency (defined by the need to proceed to surgery within a few hours after diagnosis)
- •Laparoscopic or non-laparoscopic abdominal surgery under general anesthesia and with an expected duration of at least two hours
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients already receiving mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours before enrollment
- •Intracranial hypertension
- •Chronic respiratory disease requiring oxygen therapy or mechanical ventilation at home
- •Undrained pneumothorax or subcutaneous emphysema
- •Patients for which death is deemed imminent and inevitable or patients with an underlying disease process with a life expectancy of less than 3 month
- •Body mass index (BMI) \>40 kg/m2
- •Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- •Patients already enrolled in the IMPROVE-2 trial
- •Participation in a confounding trial with mortality or PRF as the main endpoint
- •Patient's or relative's refusal to participate
Arms & Interventions
Low PEEP group
Patients will receive a PEEP level ≤5 cmH2O without recruitment maneuvers
Intervention: Low PEEP
Driving-pressure-guided group
Patients will receive PEEP levels individually set at the highest possible value (up to 15 cmH2O) providing a driving pressure (airway plateau pressure minus PEEP) lower than 13 cmH2O, in addition to recruitment maneuvers
Intervention: Driving-pressure-guided group
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Postoperative respiratory failure
Time Frame: Hospital discharge - Up to day 30
Composite criteria : 1. \- Failure to wean from the ventilator after surgery (Yes or No) 2. \- Requiring unplanned reintubation (Yes or No) 3. \- Curative non-invasive ventilation once extubated postoperatively (Yes or No) 4. \- Death (all cause of mortality) (Yes or No) If at least one of these 4 criteria is answered yes, the composite criterion (i.e. the primary outcome) will be answered yes
Secondary Outcomes
- Ventilator-free days(Day 30)
- Time to successful tracheal extubation(48 hours)
- Median norepinephrine doses during surgery(Day 1)
- Duration of ICU stay(Up to day 90)
- Postoperative pulmonary complications(Day 30)
- Postoperative extra-pulmonary complications(Day 30)
- Median ephedrine doses during surgery(Day 1)
- Intensive care unit (ICU)-free days(Day 30)
- Duration of hospital stay(Up to day 90)
- All-cause mortality(Day 90)
- Hemodynamic instability(Up to day 30)
- SOFA(Day 7)
- Duration of invasive mechanical ventilation(Up to Day 30)
- Total duration of mechanical ventilation(Up to Day 30)
- Total volume of intraoperative fluids(Day 1)
- Median phenylephrine doses during surgery(Day 1)
- Time to death(Up to 90 days)
- Pneumothorax(Up to day 30)
- SOFA(Day 1)
- SOFA(Day 2)
- SOFA(Day 3)
- SOFA(Day 4)
- SOFA(Day 5)
- SOFA(Day 6)
- All-cause mortality(Day 30)