TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lehmann, Martin
A1  - Oehler, Beatrice
A1  - Zuber, Jonas
A1  - Malzahn, Uwe
A1  - Walles, Thorsten
A1  - Muellenbach, Ralf M.
A1  - Roewer, Norbert
A1  - Kredel, Markus
T1  - Redistribution of pulmonary ventilation after lung surgery detected with electrical impedance tomography
JF  - Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
N2  - Background:
Regional ventilation of the lung can be visualized by pulmonary electrical impedance tomography (EIT). The aim of this study was to examine the post‐operative redistribution of regional ventilation after lung surgery dependent on the side of surgery and its association with forced vital capacity.


Methods:
In this prospective, observational cohort study 13 patients undergoing right and 13 patients undergoing left‐sided open or video‐thoracoscopic procedures have been investigated. Pre‐operative measurements with EIT and spirometry were compared with data obtained 3 days post‐operation. The center of ventilation (COV) within a 32 × 32 pixel matrix was calculated from EIT data. The transverse axis coordinate of COV, COVx (left/right), was modified to COVx′ (ipsilateral/contralateral). Thus, COVx′ shows a negative change if ventilation shifts contralateral independent of the side of surgery. This enabled testing with two‐way ANOVA for repeated measurements (side, time).


Results:
The perioperative shift of COVx′ was dependent on the side of surgery (P = .007). Ventilation shifted away from the side of surgery after the right‐sided surgery (COVx′‐1.97 pixel matrix points, P < .001), but not after the left‐sided surgery (COVx′‐0.61, P = .425). The forced vital capacity (%predicted) decreased from 94 (83‐109)% (median [quartiles]; [left‐sided]) and 89 (80‐97)% (right‐sided surgery) to 61 (59‐66)% and 62 (40‐72)% (P < .05), respectively. The perioperative changes in forced vital capacity (%predicted) were weakly associated with the shift of COVx′.


Conclusion:
Only after right‐sided lung surgery, EIT showed reduced ventilation on the side of surgery while vital capacity was markedly reduced in both groups.
KW  - electrical impedance tomography
KW  - general anaesthesia
KW  - one‐lung ventilation
KW  - postoperative complications
KW  - pulmonary function tests
KW  - pulmonary surgical procedures
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-213575
VL  - 64
IS  - 4
ER  -