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- Title
Hiccup-like Contractions in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Individualized Treatment Guided by Transpulmonary Pressure.
- Authors
Akoumianaki, Evangelia; Bolaki, Maria; Prinianakis, Georgios; Konstantinou, Ioannis; Panagiotarakou, Meropi; Vaporidi, Katerina; Georgopoulos, Dimitrios; Kondili, Eumorfia
- Abstract
Hiccups-like contractions, including hiccups, respiratory myoclonus, and diaphragmatic tremor, refer to involuntary, spasmodic, and inspiratory muscle contractions. They have been repeatedly described in mechanically ventilated patients, especially those with central nervous damage. Nevertheless, their effects on patient-ventilator interaction are largely unknown, and even more overlooked is their contribution to lung and diaphragm injury. We describe, for the first time, how the management of hiccup-like contractions was individualized based on esophageal and transpulmonary pressure measurements in three mechanically ventilated patients. The necessity or not of intervention was determined by the effects of these contractions on arterial blood gases, patient-ventilator synchrony, and lung stress. In addition, esophageal pressure permitted the titration of ventilator settings in a patient with hypoxemia and atelectasis secondary to hiccups and in whom sedatives failed to eliminate the contractions and muscle relaxants were contraindicated. This report highlights the importance of esophageal pressure monitoring in the clinical decision making of hiccup-like contractions in mechanically ventilated patients.
- Subjects
HICCUPS; BLOOD gases; MUSCLE contraction; MUSCLE relaxants; PRESSURE measurement; MYOCLONUS
- Publication
Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 6, p984
- ISSN
2075-4426
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jpm13060984