HFO Flashcards
what are the 4 gas exchanges theories?
- bulk convection
- pendelluft
- streaming or asymmetrical velocity
- ->velocity of gas is higher at centre of airway. Gas along side of airways is pushed backward (exhalation) - taylor type dispersion
- ->enhanced diffusion due to turbulence of gas flow reaching small airways - moelcuelar diffusion
What is bulk convection?
- Direct alveolarventilation
- Primary mode of gas exchange in conventional ventilation
- Some component of this in high frequency
What is pendelluft?
- Exchange of gas between lung units with different time constants
- when the unit with shorter TC exhales, the gas will go into the lung unit with normal TC due to path of least resistance
- the gas can also go into collapsed lung unit, helping with atelectasis
- this is used as a rescue method for babies
- also used for ARDS
- With time, lung units with longer time constants may get recruited
- good for lung unit with different time constants
What is asymmetrical velocity profiles?
- aka “Spike” and “Helical” diffusion
- Velocity of fresh gas is higher in centre
- Expiratory gases move in opposite direction at sides at slower velocity
What is taylor type dispersion?
Principle method of gas transport in HFO
- Turbulence in small airways enhances molecular diffusion
- Increase time for gas exchange (molecular diffusion)
What is Po2 influenced by in HFO?
Fio2 and MAP (or the peep)
What is PaCo2 influecned by in HFO?
driving pressure and RR
What is the relationship between RR and Co2 in HFO?
decrease RR, decrease Co2
**increasing the frequency of todal breaths will not provide enough time for complete inhalation and exhlation–> decrease the MV –> decreasing Co2 exhale
what is HFPPV?
- Conventional ventilator
- Used before high frequency devices available
- Low Compliance circuit
- Vt smaller than with CMV but Vt > Vd
- Frequency up to 150 bpm, very short I times
What is the inspiration for HFPPV?
active
What is the expiration for HFPPV?
passive
What is the issue with HFPPV?
gas trapping
When is HFJV used?
- Used particularly in infants with air leak syndrome and ARDS
- large air leaks such as bronchopleural fistula with ventilation in the ICU and in the OR with upper airway surgery
–>helps to keep pressure low at the side of the airway so that air doesnt leak out
How does HFJV work?
- short pulsation of jet flow
- delivered through special ETT, adaptor or catheter
- peep, FIO2, controlled breahts, entrained gas provided by conventional ventilator
What does the Jet controls?
PIP, rate, I time