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Speed of collapse of the non-ventilated lung during one-lung anaesthesia: the effects of the use of nitrous oxide in sheep
Authors:Pfitzner J  Peacock M J  Pfitzner L
Affiliation:Department of Anaesthesia, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, North Western Adelaide Health Service, 28 Woodville Road, Woodville, South Australia 5011, Australia. pfitznerwines@ozemail.com.au
Abstract:
By enhancing gaseous uptake from the non-ventilated lung during procedures performed thoracoscopically, the rapid diffusion properties of nitrous oxide would be expected to speed lung collapse and so facilitate surgery. To assess the effect of nitrous oxide on the speed of absorptive lung collapse, a study was conducted using 11 anaesthetised sheep. Speed of collapse was assessed in an indirect manner by recording the time required in a closed-chest situation for the airway pressure distal to a single lung airway occlusion to decrease to - 1.0 kPa. The influence of nitrous oxide was assessed by comparing the time taken for this decrease in airway pressure when the animal was being mechanically ventilated with 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen with the time taken when using 100% oxygen. In all assessments, it was found that the decrease in airway pressure to - 1.0 kPa occurred in a shorter time when nitrous oxide was used. The findings lend support to the hypothesis that during thoracoscopic surgery, mechanical lung ventilation with an oxygen/nitrous oxide mixture will increase the rate of gaseous uptake from the non-ventilated lung and so hasten its absorptive collapse.
Keywords:Anaesthesia: thoracic    Anaesthetic techniques: endobronchial    Surgery: thoracic    Anaesthetics, gases: nitrous oxide
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