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Effect of lung-protective ventilation on severe Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and sepsis in rats

Departments of ¹Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, ²Molecular Pathology and Oncology, and ³Cellular Pathobiology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 236-0004

Submitted 5 December 2003 ; accepted in final form 19 April 2004

Pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality. A lung-protective strategy using low tidal volume (V_T) ventilation for acute lung injury improves patient outcomes. The goal of this study was to determine whether low V_T ventilation has similar utility in severe P. aeruginosa infection. A cytotoxic P. aeruginosa strain, PA103, was instilled into the left lung of rats anesthetized with pentobarbital. The lung-protective effect of low V_T (6 ml/kg) with or without high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP, 10 or 3 cmH₂O) was then compared with high V_T with low PEEP ventilation (V_T 12 ml/kg, PEEP 3 cmH₂O). Severe lung injury and septic shock was induced. Although ventilatory mode had little effect on the involved lung or septic physiology, injury to noninvolved regions was attenuated by low V_T ventilation as indicated by the wet-to-dry weight ratio (W/D; 6.13 ± 0.78 vs. 3.78 ± 0.26, respectively) and confirmed by histopathological examinations. High PEEP did not yield a significant protective effect (W/D, 4.03 ± 0.32) but, rather, caused overdistension of noninvolved lungs. Bronchoalveolar lavage revealed higher concentrations of TNF- in the fluid of noninvolved lung undergoing high V_T ventilation compared with those animals receiving low V_T. We conclude that low V_T ventilation is protective in noninvolved regions and that the application of high PEEP attenuated the beneficial effects of low V_T ventilation, at least short term. Furthermore, low V_T ventilation cannot protect the involved lung, and high PEEP did not significantly alter lung injury over a short time course.

acute lung injury; ventilator-induced lung injury; lung protective strategy; cytokines; bacterial toxins

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