Delivery of Epinephrine in the Vapor Phase for the Treatment of Croup

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine : a Journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
Kitty LeungAllan L Coates

Abstract

The Vapotherm system delivers high humidity to the airway of patients by using semipermeable tubules where heated liquid water is in contact with air. The humidified air is conducted to the patient via a heated tube. Preliminary clinical observations in infants with croup suggested that epinephrine added to the water supplying the humidity was delivered successfully in the vapor phase. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the delivery of epinephrine in the vapor phase and to develop the feasibility criteria for a clinical pilot study. Thirty milligrams of epinephrine in a 1-L bag of sterile water was used as the humidification source for a Vapotherm 2000i. The output of the heated circuit was condensed and collected into a small Erlenmeyer flask via a metal coil while the whole collection system was submerged in an ice slurry to maintain the outflow temperature from the flask between 0°C and 2°C. The in vitro system was tested at 40°C with flows of 5, 10, and 15 L/min and L-epinephrine concentrations of 15, 30, and 60 mg/L. Each test was duplicated at each of the six conditions. Academic children's hospital research laboratory. None. None. The system recovered more than 90% of the water vapor from the ful...Continue Reading

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