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While being necessary for survival of respiratory in the GICU of Sri Aurobindo Institute of
failure patients, MV do come with multitude of MedicalSciences, Indore. 30 subjects who
complications and risks associated with fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria were
prolonged unnecessary mechanical ventilation, taken and equally divided into two groups by
including reduced inspiratory muscle strength, simple random sampling method.
ventilator induced lung injury, ventilator Inclusion Criteria:
associated pneumonia, increased length of ICU 1. Patients who have been on MV for at least 24
and hospital stay, and increased cost of care hours and start to wean from medical order
delivery.4 Various studies done on mechanically- 2. Age- above 18 years.
ventilated humans documented approximately
3. Gender- both.
55% atrophy in human diaphragm following 19
to 56 hours of controlled MV.5,6 The resultant 4. Ventilator mode: SIMV, CPAP, SIMV+PS and PSV.
degree of respiratory muscle weakness is found 5. Good consciousness, cooperation and can sit
to be related to the duration of MV7 and has been in 60 0 propped-up position for at least 15
suggested as a possible cause of delayed minutes.
weaning from MV.8 6. Normal ABG
Weaning from MV is thus the most essential PaO2 > 60mm Hg on FiO2 < 0.5 or
element in the care of critically ill intubated
SaO2 >90%
patients. Hence, many studies have been carried
out to find solution for early weaning and PaCO2<50 mm Hg
discontinuation from MV. pH 7.35-7.45
Maximal Inspiratory Pressure (MIP) is the index 7. Cardiovascular stability
used to measure inspiratory muscle strength9. 8. Maximal Inspiratory Pressure: >-35cm H2O
The most observed symptom due to respiratory Exclusion criteria:
muscle weakness is dyspnoea10 and it interferes 1. Persistent hemodynamic instability.
or delays weaning and increase patients
dependence on the MV. Hence, few researchers 2.Severe breathlessness at rest, when spontane-
suggest the need of inspiratory muscle training ously breathing.
(IMT) for successful weaning.11 3. Life threatening arrhythmias.
There are numerous methods of giving IMT; the 4. Any progressive neuromuscular disease that
method used in present study is threshold would interfere with responding to inspiratory
inspiratory muscle training (TIMT) by a muscle training.
commercially available device. The benefit of 5. Spinal cord injury above T8.
threshold inspiratory muscle trainer lies in its 6. Skeletal pathology (scoliosis, flail chest, spinal
ability of making patient to generate required instrumentation) that would seriously impair the
negative training pressure independent of their movement of the chest wall and ribs.
breathing flow-rates and patterns. Hence, TIMT
helps in objectively increasing training pressures 7. Patients on heavy sedation and respiratory
for successful strengthening of inspiratory muscle paralysis.
muscles. Procedure:
An informed consent was taken from each
The purpose of this study is to check the subject prior to participation. Patients were
effectiveness of conventional physiotherapy and
evaluated on day 1 of spontaneous ventilation
TIMT on the weaning period of mechanically
ventilated patients. By this we can modulate our (weaning) before commencement of treatment
treatment protocols so as to have early weaning and post-extubation using patient assessment
from mechanical ventilation, thereby reducing chart and by MIP measuring device (digital
total cost of stay in ICU and getting better manometer with custom adaptor for
functional out comes for patients in a lesser time. endotracheal tube).
METHODOLOGY MIP measurements were repeated three times
The study was experimental design, conducted with a two minute rest period on MV support
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Akansha Dixit, Shashwat Prakash. EFFECTS OF THRESHOLD INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING VERSUS CONVENTIONAL PHYSIOTHERAPY
ON THE WEANING PERIOD OF MECHANICALLY VENTILATED PATIENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.
Table.2. Analysis of weaning period in both groups. Mehtap Malkoc et al16 in their study found that
Group A use of chest physiotherapy can result in reducing
Para meters Group B (TIMT) (Conventional the period of MV required in ICU. The decrease
therapy) in duration of MV on administration of chest
Mean 4.27 6.27 physiotherapy is supposed to be due to enhanced
Standard airway clearance, prevention of atelectasis and
1.49 1.71 reduction of ventilation-perfusion mismatching.
Deviation
t Value 1.7094 The rationale behind using the IMT in the
p Value 0.0009 mechanically ventilated patients is to prevent
Fig.3. Mean of duration of days of weaning period in and correct inspiratory muscle weakness and
both groups. hence improve weaning outcome. Its use in
mechanically ventilated patients is of short
duration and the resultant inspiratory muscle
strength gain is believed to be due to neural
adaptation 17 rather than due to muscle
hypertrophy, leading to a more efficient motor
program.18
Threshold inspiratory muscle trainer imposes a
threshold or critical opening pressure that must
be overcome prior to inspiratory flow
commencing (Flynn et al19). During the task,
inspiratory muscles initially perform an isometric
DISCUSSION contraction until the threshold valve opens to
MIP has been demonstrated to be an effective allow inspiratory flow, after which the
indicator of inspiratory muscle strength (Tobin contraction becomes isotonic in nature; hence
M et al). 12 A study done by Sahn and allow both strength and endurance training. In
Lakshminarain describes MIP values of 30 contrast to resistive loading, threshold loading
cmH 2 O as efficient individual predictor of has the advantage of inspiratory pressure being
weaning. largely independent of flow rate (Nickerson and
Keens20) such that manipulations in breathing
The results of this study show that the MIP
pattern to change inspiratory flow rates will not
improved more significantly in the TIMT group
alter the inspiratory load imposed by the device.
than the conventional Physiotherapy group and
The poppet valve at the end of the device will
also the weaning period and hence total
not open and allow inspiration unless the patient
mechanical ventilation period was shorter in
generates the designated negative pressure. The
TIMT group than the conventional Physiotherapy
device also offers an auditory feedback on
group. This is in accordance with the findings of
successful breath completion, caused by
previous studies done by Cader et al 13 and
oscillatory motion of spring.
Sprague & Hopkins. 14 The data analyzed in a
systematic review done by Lisa Moodie et al15 Inspiratory muscles being skeletal muscles
confirms that inspiratory muscle training respond to the training in terms of the principles
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improves MIP significantly, but it remains of overload, specificity, and reversibility .
unclear whether these benefits translate to Hence, training causes improved performance
weaning success and a shorter duration of MV. of these muscles and decreased fatigue. In our
training it was evident by increased training
Traditionally physiotherapy has been associated
threshold pressures in consecutive sessions.
with routine medical and nursing care in ICU
There were no adverse effects seen during TIMT
management of mechanically ventilated
in our study and all vital signs remained stable
patients. But its role is still not clearly identified
throughout. The chances of re-intubation were
and holds varying level of importance with
also nil in both TIMT and conventional
different physicians.
physiotherapy groups.
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ON THE WEANING PERIOD OF MECHANICALLY VENTILATED PATIENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.
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Akansha Dixit, Shashwat Prakash. EFFECTS OF THRESHOLD INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING
VERSUS CONVENTIONAL PHYSIOTHERAPY ON THE WEANING PERIOD OF MECHANICALLY
VENTILATED PATIENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY. Int J Physiother Res 2014;2(2):424-28.
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