Impact of Minimizing Asynchronies in Mechanical Ventilation on Patient’s Outcome in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Background: Patients-ventilator asynchrony defined as a mismatch between the patient’s respiratory effort and the ventilator delivered breaths and it is common in clinical practice. Patient ventilator interaction is a key element in optimizing MV. The change from inspiration to expiration is a crucial point in the mechanically ventilated breaths and is termed cycling, PVA may occur if the flow at which the ventilator cycles to exhalation does not coincide with the termination of neural inspiration. Ideally, the ventilator terminates inspiratory flow in synchrony with the patients neural timing, but frequently the ventilator terminates early or late.

Aims: The aim of this study was to detect the prevalence of asynchrony during assisted MV, IT and DT were the two main patterns of asynchrony.

Patients and Methods: This prospective study was carried out upon 60 patients from 2 to 180 months, 38 males and 22 females, with spontaneous triggering on MV, admitted to the PICU, Tanta University Hospital.

Results: Fortunately, ITI is increased with volume SIMV +PSV compared with pressure SIMV +PSV and PRVC. ITI is a highly significant diagnostic for synchronization. Pressure regulated volume control was better than pressure SIMV+PSV and both were better than volume SIMV +PSV proved by less ITI and increase mortality with ITI ≥10%.

Conclusion: Pressure regulated volume control was better than pressure SIMV+PSV and both were better than volume SIMV +PSV proved by less ITI and increase mortality with ITI ≥10%. The patient-ventilator synchrony is crucial in determining the patient comfort, MV duration, and survival ITI is diagnostic for synchronization. ITI, PIP/ITI on 1st day, and SpO2 on 3rd day were significant predictors for synchronization.