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Gas exchange during controlled ventilation in children with normal and abnormal pulmonary circulation: a study using the single breath test for carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide single breath tests (SBT-CO2) were obtained during anesthesia and controlled ventilation in 42 children about to undergo thoracic surgery. The tests were obtained with a computerized system based on the Servo ventilator. The system made on-line corrections for compressed volume, apparatus deadspace, and rebreathing. Children with normal pulmonary circulation had excellent gas exchange with high PaO2 values, a mean alveolar deadspace fraction (VDalv/VTalv) of 0.10, and a gently sloping phase III of SBT-CO2. Children with pulmonary hyperperfusion (left to right shunting) due to an atrial septal defect or a ventrical septal defect had significantly lower PaO2 values, steeper phase III slopes, and a greater spread of values for VDalv/VTalv. Children with pulmonary hypoperfusion due to pulmonary stenosis in combination with intracardiac right to left shunting had extremely low PaO2 values, and "adult" values for VDalv/VTalv. They required increased ventilation to maintain CO2 homeostasis. In the pooled material, the airway deadspace was strongly correlated to height, weight, and age. The airway deadspace was unaffected when tidal volume was increased by 37%, and ventilatory frequency simultaneously reduced by 30%, a maneuver that left alveolar ventilation unchanged. This is probably because an end-inspiratory pause was used; when frequency is reduced the length of the end-inspiratory pause increases, allowing proximal diffusion of the alveolar/fresh gas interface.

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