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Preclinical evaluation of epinephrine nebulization to reduce airway hyperemia and improve oxygenation after smoke inhalation injury.

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OBJECTIVE:Acute lung injury secondary to smoke inhalation is a major source of morbidity and mortality in burn patients. We tested the hypothesis that nebulized epinephrine would ameliorate pulmonary dysfunction secondary to acute lung injury by reducing airway hyperemia and edema formation and mediating bronchodilatation in an established, large animal model of inhalation injury. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled, randomized trial. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Twenty-four chronically instrumented, adult, female sheep. INTERVENTIONS:Following baseline measurements, the animals were allocated to a sham-injured group (n = 5), an injured and saline-treated group (n = 6), or an injured group treated with 4 mg of nebulized epinephrine every 4 hrs (n = 6). Inhalation injury was induced by 48 breaths of cotton smoke. The dose of epinephrine was derived from dose finding experiments (n = 7 sheep). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:The injury induced significant increases in airway blood flows, bronchial wet/dry weight ratio, airway obstruction scores, ventilatory pressures, and lung malondialdehyde content, and contributed to severe pulmonary dysfunction as evidenced by a significant decline in Pao₂/Fio₂ ratio and increase in pulmonary shunt fraction. Nebulization of epinephrine significantly reduced tracheal and main bronchial blood flows, ventilatory pressures, and lung malondialdehyde content. The treatment was further associated with significant improvements of Pao₂/FIO₂ ratio and pulmonary shunting. CONCLUSIONS:Nebulization of epinephrine reduces airway blood flow and attenuates pulmonary dysfunction in sheep subjected to severe smoke inhalation injury. Future studies will have to improve the understanding of the underlying pathomechanisms and identify the optimal dosing for the treatment of patients with this injury.

journal_name

Crit Care Med

journal_title

Critical care medicine

authors

Lange M,Hamahata A,Traber DL,Cox RA,Kulp GA,Nakano Y,Traber LD,Herndon DN,Enkhbaatar P

doi

10.1097/CCM.0b013e318207ec52

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-04-01 00:00:00

pages

718-24

issue

eissn

0090-3493

issn

1530-0293

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Preclinical evaluation of epinephrine nebulization to reduce airway hyperemia and improve oxygenation after smoke inhalation injury.