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Driving Pressure and Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Thoracic Surgery

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Postoperative Pulmonary Complication
One-Lung Ventilation
Thoracic Surgery
Postoperative Complications
Driving Pressure
Positive End Expiratory Pressure
Interventions
Other: ventilation
Registration Number
NCT04260451
Lead Sponsor
Samsung Medical Center
Brief Summary

Pulmonary complications are the most common complication in thoracic surgery and the leading cause of mortality.Therefore, lung protection is utmost important, and protective ventilation is strongly recommended in thoracic surgery. Protective ventilation is a prevailing ventilatory strategy in these days and is comprised of small tidal volume, limited inspiratory pressure, and application of positive end-expiratory pressure. However, several retrospective studies recently suggested that tidal volume, inspiratory pressure, and positive end-expiratory pressure are not related to patient outcomes, or only related when they influenced the driving pressure. Recently, the investigators reported the first prospective study about the driving pressure-guided ventilation in thoracic surgery. PEEP was titrated to bring the lowest driving pressure in each patient and applied throughout the one lung ventilation. The application of individualized PEEP reduced the incidence of pulmonary complications.However, that study was small size single center study with 312 patients. Thus, investigators try to perform large scale multicenter study. Through this study investigators evaluate that driving pressure-guided ventilation can reduce the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications compared with conventional protective ventilation in thoracic surgery.

Detailed Description

Nowdays, the usual setting of protective ventilation during one lung ventilation is tidal volume (VT) 5 ml/kg of predicted body weight, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) 5 cm H2O and plateau pressure (Pplat) less than 25 cmH2O.

However, a high incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications is still being observed even with a protective ventilatory strategy.

Driving pressure is \[Pplat - PEEP\] and is the pressure required for the alveolar opening. Static lung compliance (Cstat) is expressed as \[VT / (Pplat - PEEP)\]. Thus, driving pressure is also expressed as \[VT / Cstat\]. Driving pressure has an inverse relationship with Cstat and orthodromic relationship with VT according to this formula. High driving pressure indicates poor lung condition with decreased lung compliance.

Thus, investigator try to prove that driving pressure limited ventilation is superior in preventing postoperative pulmonary complications to existing protective ventilation in large scale multicenter study.

Recruit maneuver perform all group after intubation (stepwise increase of positive end expiratory pressure 5,10,15 cmH2O with tidal volume 5mL/kg).

The control arm receives existing conventional protective ventilation with tidal volume of 5mL/kg of ideal body weight and PEEP of 5 cmH2O during one-lung ventilation.

The driving pressure arm receives driving pressure limited ventilation with tidal volume of 5mL/kg of ideal body weight and individualized PEEP. Individualized PEEP is adjusted to minimize driving pressure, it find through decremental PEEP titration from 10 to 2 cmH2O during one-lung ventilation.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1300
Inclusion Criteria

Adults older than or equal to 19 years with American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status Ⅰ-Ⅲ Patient who undergoes one-lung ventilation (more than 60 minutes) for elective thoracic surgery

Exclusion Criteria
  1. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status classification greater than or equal to 4
  2. Symptoms of heart failure (hypertension, urination, pulmonary edema, left ventricular outflow rate <45%) or preoperative vasopressors
  3. Patient who is received oxygen therapy and ventilation care
  4. large emphysema and pneumothorax
  5. pregnancy and lactation
  6. patients participating in similar studies
  7. Joint with other operation
  8. Patient who rejects being enrolled in the study
  9. Patients with elevated intracranial pressure
  10. Patients with peripheral neuropathy or blood circulation disorders
  11. Patients with hematology disease
  12. Congenital heart disease with shunt

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Driving pressure groupventilationPositive end expiratory pressure is adjusted to tidal volume of 5 mL/kg of ideal body weight, inspiratory:expiratory=1:2, and minimize driving pressure (plateau pressure minus end expiratory pressure) during one-lung ventilation. Other procedures are same with the control arm.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complicationswithin the first 7 days after surgery

Postoperative pulmonary complications are defined as one or more of the following:

* Hypoxia: SpO2 \< 90%

* Requiring oxygen therapy: Facial mask, nasal prong, continuous positive airway pressure, non-invasive positive pressure breathing or high flow nasal oxygen supply between POD 2 and 7.

* Initial ventilator supports longer than 24 h

* Re-intubation

* Requiring mechanical ventilation

* Tracheostomy

* Pneumonia

* Empyema

* Atelectasis requiring bronchoscopy

* Acute respiratory distress syndrome

* Acute lung injury

* Persistent emphysema or pneumothorax or air leak requiring chest tube for 5 days or more

* Prolonged pleural effusion requiring chest tube for 5 days or more

* Bronchopleural fistula

* Contralateral pneumothorax

* Pulmonary embolism embolism

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cstat15 minutes after one-lung ventilation

Lung compliance (mL/mmHg)

the incidence of coronary thrombosiswithin the first 7 days after surgery

Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery surgery

the incidence of septic shockwithin the first 7 days after surgery

: A subset of sepsis (a life-threatening organ dysfunction resulting from dysregulated host responses to infection) in which underlying circulatory, cellular, and metabolic abnormalities are profound enough to substantially increase the risk of mortality. Despite adequate fluid resuscitation, patients have hypotension requiring vasopressors to maintain a mean arterial blood pressure above 65 mmHg and have an elevated serum lactate concentration of more than 2 mmol/L

oxygenation15 minutes after one-lung ventilation

Partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood (PaO2, mmHg) or PaO2/Inspired oxygen fraction (PF ratio)

the incidence of postoperative surgical site complicationswithin the first 7 days after surgery

: The CDC defines a superficial incisional surgical site infection as one which meets the following criteria.

1. Infection occurs within 30 days after surgery and

2. Involves only skin and subcutaneous tissue of the incision and

3. The patient has at least one of the following:

1. purulent drainage from the superficial incision

2. organisms isolated from an aseptically obtained culture of fluid or tissue from the superficial incision

3. at least one of the following symptoms or signs of infection: pain or tenderness, localised swelling, redness or heat, and superficial incision is deliberately opened by surgeon and is culture positive or not cultured. A culture negative finding does not meet this criterion.

4. diagnosis of an incisional surgical site infection by a surgeon or attending physician.

Length of stay in the intensive care unit and hospitalwithin the first 30 days after surgery

the duration of hospital stay and intensive care unit stay (day)

mortalitywithin the first 30 days after surgery

in hospital death or out of hospital

the incidence of rescue ventilationduring surgery

the need for rescue ventilation to treat hypoxia (Inspired oxygen fraction 1.0, two lung ventilation, recruitment, PEEP change, Tidal volume change, continuous positive pressure ventilation, change to pressure control mode)

the incidence of postoperative renal complicationswithin the first 7 days after surgery

acute kidney injury(acute kidney injury network criteria): Stage I: Diuresis \< 0.5 mg/kg (6 h) or increase in serum Cr \> 0.3 mg/dl. Stage II: Diuresis \< 0.5 mg/kg (12 h) or basal Cr x 2 mg/dL. Stage III: Diuresis \< 0.3 mg/kg (24 h) or anuria (12 h) or basal Cr x 3 mg/dL, or Cr \> 4 mg/dL or renal replacement therapy.

the incidence of postoperative cognitive complicationswithin the first 7 days after surgery

diagnosed by Confusion Assessment method (CAM: positive or negative) or Medicines for treating delirium symptoms include antipsychotic drugs and benzodiazepines

the incidence of acute myocardial infarctionwithin the first 7 days after surgery

Acute myocardial injury with clinical evidence of acute myocardial ischemia and with detection of a rise and/or fall of cardiac troponin values with at least one value above the 99th percentile upper reference limit and at least one of the following:

1. Symptoms of myocardial ischemia

2. New ischemic ECG changes

3. Development of pathological Q waves

4. Imaging evidence of new loss of viable myocardium or new regional wall motion abnormality in a pattern consistent with an ischemic etiology

5. Identification of a coronary thrombus by angiography or autopsy (not for types 2 or 3 myocardial infarctions)

the incidence of new arrythmiawithin the first 7 days after surgery

New arrhythmias that persist for more than 2 days

the incidence of re-admissionwithin the first 30 days after surgery

re-admission because of surgical related problems

CRPwithin the first 1 days after surgery

C-reactive protein (mg/L) of laboratory exam

the incidence of postoperative transfusionwithin the first 3 days after surgery

red blood cell, fresh frozen plasma, platelet

the incidence of cerebral infarctionwithin the first 7 days after surgery

Magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Samsung medical center

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

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