Indices of hypoxemia in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: reliability, validity, and clinical usefulness.
Indices of hypoxemia in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: reliability, validity, and clinical usefulness.
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急性呼吸窘迫综合征患者低氧血症指标:可靠性、有效性和临床实用性。
DOI:
10.1097/00003246-199701000-00005
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
T. Raffin
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Gould;S. Ruoss;N. Rizk;R. Doyle;T. Raffin
Our understanding of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has evolved over time, not only with respect to the cellular aspects of lung injury and the physiologic mechanisms of hypoxemia, but also regarding the syndrome's definition and treatment. In this issue of Critical Care Medicine, Drs. Gowda and Klocke [1] offer both a useful reminder about interpatient variabilities in the physiology of gas exchange in ARDS patients, and a warning about the reliability of commonly used indices of hypoxemia. Their warning has implications for the definition of ARDS, and for the selection and stratification of patients for clinical trials. Their conclusions also prompt reflection about the limited usefulness of such indices in the clinical management of ARDS patients.In the initial descriptions of ARDS, intrapulmonary shunting from alveolar flooding was thought to be the sole physiologic cause of hypoxemia [2, 3]. The possible contribution of ventilation/perfusion inequality was postulated later [4]. Using the inert gas elimination technique, Dantzker and colleagues [5] documented that significant ventilation/perfusion inequality accompanied intrapulmonary shunting in half of the 16 ARDS patients they studied. The work of Drs. Gowda and Klocke [1] further explores the consequences of this interpatient variation in physiology. Specifically, Drs. Gowda and Klocke demonstrate that: a) the PaO 2/FIO 2 ratio (and other" tension-based" indices) varies across different FIO 2 values, especially in patients with significant ventilation/perfusion inequality, but also in patients with high shunt fractions; b) the PaO 2/FIO 2 ratio is nevertheless the most reliable index of abnormal gas exchange under usual clinical conditions; and (c) the measured venous admixture (a" content-based" index), which is thought to be the gold standard for assessing pulmonary oxygenation, also may vary with alterations in FIO 2, and the degree of this variation is proportional to the degree of ventilation/perfusion imbalance. These conclusions add to an already extensive literature on the subject.
DOI:
10.1164/ajrccm.152.6.8520742
发表时间:
1995-12-01
影响因子:
24.7
作者:
DOYLE, RL;SZAFLARSKI, N;MATTHAY, MA
通讯作者:
MATTHAY, MA