Obesity may increase the risk of respiratory failure after cardiothoracic surgery. A recruitment maneuver followed by PEEP might decrease the risk of respiratory failure in obese subjects. We hypothesized that the routine use after heart surgery of a recruitment maneuver followed by high or low PEEP level would decrease the frequency of respiratory failure in obese subjects.
METHODS:
In a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial, we assigned obese subjects (ie, with body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the immediate postoperative period of cardiothoracic surgery to either volume control ventilation with 5 cm H2O of PEEP (control group) or a recruitment maneuver followed by 5 or 10 cm H2O of PEEP in the intervention arms (RM5 and RM10 groups, respectively). The primary outcome was the proportion of subjects with postextubation respiratory failure, defined as the need for re-intubation, bi-level positive airway pressure, or high-flow nasal cannula within the first 48 h.
RESULTS:
The study included 192 subjects: 65 in the control group (BMI 33.5 ± 3.2 kg/m2), 66 in the RM5 group (BMI 34.5 ± 3.2 kg/m2, and 61 in RM10 group (BMI 33.8 ± 4.8 kg/m2). Postextubation respiratory failure occurred in 14 subjects in the control group (21.5% [95% CI 13.3–35.3]), 21 subjects in the RM5 group (31.8% [95% CI 21.2–44.6]), and 9 subjects in the RM10 group (14.7% [95% CI 7.4–26.7]) (P = .07). The recruitment maneuver was stopped prematurely due to severe hypotension in 8 (12.1%) RM5 subjects and in 4 (6.6%) RM10 subjects (P = .28). There were no significant differences between the 3 groups for the frequencies of atelectasis, pneumonia, and death in the ICU.
CONCLUSIONS:
The routine use after heart surgery of a recruitment maneuver followed by 5 or 10 cm H2O of PEEP did not decrease the frequency of respiratory failure in obese subjects. A recruitment maneuver followed by 5 cm H2O of PEEP is inappropriate.
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