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Protective intraoperative ventilation with higher versus lower levels of positive end-expiratory pressure in obese patients (PROBESE): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

  • PROBESE investigators, and the PROtective VEntilation Network (PROVEnet) and on behalf of the Clinical Trial Network of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA)
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • Semmelweis University
  • Generalitat de Catalunya
  • Medical University of Vienna
  • University of Foggia
  • Ghent University
  • University of Basel
  • Unit of Psychiatry, P. Giaccone General Hospital
  • Uppsala University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Hôpital Saint Eloi
  • University of Toronto
  • Zaporizhzhia State Medical University
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Insubria
  • Ponderas Hospital
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Lutsk City Clin Hosp
  • University Hospital Dubrava
  • University of Bonn
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Istanbul University
  • Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
  • Fundação Universitaria do ABC, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC
  • Fatih Sultan Mehmet Educational and Research Hospital
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Leipzig University
  • University and San Martino Hospital of Genoa
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Heidelberg University 
  • University Clinic of Surgery St. Naum Ohridski
  • Marienhospital Wesel
  • University Hospital Center of Santo António
  • Centro Hospitalar Entre o Douro e Vouga
  • Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João
  • Hospital Pedro Hispano
  • Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
  • Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ
  • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Tufts Medical Center
  • University of Mississippi
  • The University of Chicago
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Leiden University
  • Department of Anesthesiology
  • Vrije Universiteit (VU) and VU Medical Centre
  • Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis
  • Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia
  • Hospital General Universitario de Valencia
  • Hospital Universitario La Paz
  • Hospital Mutua Terrassa
  • Hospital Clinic Barcelona
  • King Abdullah Medical City
  • Assiut University
  • Mansoura University
  • Alexandra Hospital
  • King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
  • Dokuz Eylul University
  • Marmara University
  • Akdeniz University
  • Az. Osp. Universitaria Sant' Anna
  • University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
  • Ospedale U. Parini
  • Spital Thurgau AG
  • Medical School University of Zagreb
  • UH Antwerpen
  • KU Leuven
  • AZ Sint Jan Brugge
  • Université catholique de Louvain
  • St James's Hospital
  • University of Ostrava
  • Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
  • Medical University of Łódź
  • University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
  • York Teaching Hospital
  • Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • North Bristol NHS Trust

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Abstract

Background: Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) increase the morbidity and mortality of surgery in obese patients. High levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with lung recruitment maneuvers may improve intraoperative respiratory function, but they can also compromise hemodynamics, and the effects on PPCs are uncertain. We hypothesized that intraoperative mechanical ventilation using high PEEP with periodic recruitment maneuvers, as compared with low PEEP without recruitment maneuvers, prevents PPCs in obese patients. Methods/design: The PRotective Ventilation with Higher versus Lower PEEP during General Anesthesia for Surgery in OBESE Patients (PROBESE) study is a multicenter, two-arm, international randomized controlled trial. In total, 2013 obese patients with body mass index ≥35 kg/m2 scheduled for at least 2 h of surgery under general anesthesia and at intermediate to high risk for PPCs will be included. Patients are ventilated intraoperatively with a low tidal volume of 7 ml/kg (predicted body weight) and randomly assigned to PEEP of 12 cmH2O with lung recruitment maneuvers (high PEEP) or PEEP of 4 cmH2O without recruitment maneuvers (low PEEP). The occurrence of PPCs will be recorded as collapsed composite of single adverse pulmonary events and represents the primary endpoint. Discussion: To our knowledge, the PROBESE trial is the first multicenter, international randomized controlled trial to compare the effects of two different levels of intraoperative PEEP during protective low tidal volume ventilation on PPCs in obese patients. The results of the PROBESE trial will support anesthesiologists in their decision to choose a certain PEEP level during general anesthesia for surgery in obese patients in an attempt to prevent PPCs. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02148692. Registered on 23 May 2014; last updated 7 June 2016.

Original languageEnglish
Article number202
JournalTrials
Volume18
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Apr 2017

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteR34HL123438

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    Keywords

    • Mechanical ventilation
    • Obesity
    • Positive end-expiratory pressure
    • Postoperative pulmonary complication
    • Recruitment maneuver

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