PMID: 8958867Oct 19, 1996Paper

Permissive hypercapnia. From choice to unavoidable decision

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C Perret, F Feihl

Abstract

Experimental and clinical evidence has led to a revision of conventional techniques used for mechanical ventilation in the treatment of respiratory failure due to severe asthma and acute respiratory distress syndrome. A common feature in these two clinical situations is the heterogeneous nature of the lesions, causing mechanical alterations which vary from one region to another. Thus the tidal volume is not equally distributed throughout the lungs and can lead to overdistension in some regions or functional exclusion in others. Hyperinflation then exposes the patient to barotrauma, cardiocirculatory and/or alveolocapillary complications. Controlled hypoventilation-or permissive hypercapnia-is a new approach aimed at preventing complications by supplying adequate oxygen while accepting or provoking a certain degree of hypercapnia by alveolar hypoventilation. The technique is based on restricting tidal volume and respiratory rate as long as is necessary to recover more favorable mechanical conditions. Results obtained with this method have been convincing for the treatment of decompensated asthma but preliminary data obtained in acute respiratory distress syndrome remain to be validated.

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