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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: BACKGROUND, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Administration, Inhalation, Animals, Capillaries, Capillary Permeability, Charcoal, Lung Compliance, Lung Diseases, Male, Pulmonary Wedge Pressure, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Respiration, Artificial, Tidal Volume.
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Does pressure-controlled ventilation attenuate lung microvascular injury in a rat model of activated charcoal aspiration? Context: Previous animal data suggest that aspiration of activated charcoal is associated with pulmonary microvascular injury that may be related to excessive ventilator-induced airway pressures. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that ventilator-induced airway trauma contributes to the lung vascular injury observed following activated charcoal aspiration. Capillary filtration coefficient (Kf,c), a sensitive measure of lung microvascular permeability, was determined isogravimetrically prior to and after intratracheal instillation of 0.4 ml/kg (12% weight/vol. solution, pH 7.4) activated charcoal oran equal volume of sterile water in isolated, perfused rat lungs in which ventilation was either pressure-controlled at 10cm H2O or volume-controlled at 5 ml/kg. There was significant lung injury in both activated charcoal groups regardless of ventilation method compared to control lungs or lungs administered sterile water (p < 0.05 ANOVA). However, injury to pressure-controlled ventilated lungs was significantly less than lungs ventilated with traditional, volume-controlled ventilation.
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The results of this investigation demonstrate that pressure-controlled ventilation reduces the lung microvascular injury observed following aspiration of activated charcoal as compared to traditional volume-controlled ventilation methods. Final Decision: yes