Dynamic elastic pressure-volume loops in healthy XXXX recorded with inspiratory and expiratory sinusoidal flow modulation. Relationship to static pressure-volume loops.

@entity1707 @entity2507 @entity891 @entity9239
OBJECTIVE: The objective was to analyse relationships between inspiratory and expiratory static and dynamic elastic pressure-volume (P(el)/V) curves in healthy @entity1707 . DESIGN: The modulated low flow method was developed to allow studies also of the expiratory P(el)/V curves. Static P(el)/V (P(el,st)/V) and dynamic P(el)/V (P(el,dyn)/V) loops were studied in healthy @entity1707 . SETTING: Animal research laboratory in a university hospital. MATERIAL: Ten healthy anaesthetised and paralysed @entity1707 . INTERVENTIONS AND MEASUREMENTS: A computer controlled a Servo Ventilator 900C with respect to respiratory rate, inspiratory flow and expiratory pressure to achieve a sinusoidal modulation of inspiration and expiration for determination of P(el,dyn)/V loops from zero end-expiratory pressure (ZEEP) and from a positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 6 cm @entity2507 to 20, 35 and 50 cm @entity2507 . The same system was used for studies of P(el,st)/V loops with the flow-interruption method from ZEEP and @entity9239 to 35 cm @entity2507 . Recordings were analysed with an iterative technique. RESULTS: The feasibility of automated determination of P(el,dyn)/V loops was demonstrated. Differences between P(el,dyn)/V and P(el,st)/V loops were explained by viscoelastic behaviour. P(el,st)/V loops recorded from PEEP to 35 cm @entity2507 showed no significant hysteresis, indicating a non-significant surface tension hysteresis. P(el,dyn)/V loops from PEEP and both P(el,st)/V and P(el,dyn)/V loops from ZEEP to 35 cm @entity2507 showed hysteresis. This indicates that lung collapse/re-expansion caused P(el)/V loop hysteresis which, in P(el,dyn)/V loops, was augmented by viscoelastic behaviour. CONCLUSIONS: Viscoelasticity influences P(el,dyn)/V curves. Hysteresis caused by surface tension merits re-evaluation. @entity891 and re-expansion may be indicated by hysteresis of P(el)/V loops.
