We shall use the clinical analysis of heart-lung interactions as the vehicle for training post-doctoral candidates. This is an excellent and proven productive pathway for mentoring because it is based in clinically relevant cardiopulmonary physiology and requires the trainee to learn to use state-of-the-art imaging techniques with broad applications to the operating room, ICU, general hospital ward and out- patient clinic. Ventilation and ventilatory maneuvers have profound and often poorly understood hemodynamic effects especially in the setting of cardio-respiratory failure. Although numerous investigators have studied heart-lung interactions, an accurate clinical application has been lacking. Our goal is to develop and validate clinically relevant and easily applicable bedside tools for the rapid and unambiguous diagnosis of the etiology of hemodynamic insufficiency and the impact of ventilatory and adjunct cardiovascular therapies upon it. We use as our research environment, the echocardiographic clinic and the cardiac surgery suite. To accomplish these goals we are testing three hypothesis: 1) Ventilation-induced changes in LV preload and afterload are non-linear between forceful and relaxed spontaneous and positive- pressure inspiration. 2) Low levels of positive end-expiratory pressure improve LV performance by minimizing ventricular interdependence and LV ejection asynchrony by increasing ITP. 3) LV contractile reserve and preload responsiveness (often opposite ends of the cardiac function spectrum) and arterial tone can be readily identified by analysis of the arterial pulse pressure responses to spontaneous and positive-pressure ventilation. We shall use state-of-the-art echocardiographic imaging techniques (acoustic quantification and tissue Doppler imaging) for complex analysis of LV performance and simple aortic-pulsed Doppler and arterial pressure waveform analysis to assess preload-responsiveness, contractile reserve and arterial tone to derive clinically useful information.
| Arulkumaran, Nishkantha; Deutschman, Clifford S; Pinsky, Michael R et al. (2016) MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IN SEPSIS. Shock 45:271-81 |
| Pinsky, Michael R; Brochard, Laurent; Kellum, John A (2016) Ten recent advances that could not have come about without applying physiology. Intensive Care Med 42:258-60 |
| Pinsky, Michael R; Kim, Hyung Kook; Zenker, Sven et al. (2016) Differential Effects of Left Ventricular Pacing Sites on Regional Contraction Patterns and Global Performance. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 30:709-15 |
| Holder, Andre L; Clermont, Gilles (2015) Using what you get: dynamic physiologic signatures of critical illness. Crit Care Clin 31:133-64 |
| Ott, Lora K; Pinsky, Michael R; Hoffman, Leslie A et al. (2015) Patients in the radiology department may be at increased risk of developing critical instability. J Radiol Nurs 34:29-34 |
| Pinsky, Michael R (2015) Defining the boundaries of preload responsiveness at the bedside. Pediatr Crit Care Med 16:82-3 |
| Pinsky, Michael R (2015) Functional hemodynamic monitoring. Crit Care Clin 31:89-111 |
| Vanderpool, Rebecca R; Pinsky, Michael R; Naeije, Robert et al. (2015) RV-pulmonary arterial coupling predicts outcome in patients referred for pulmonary hypertension. Heart 101:37-43 |
| Pinsky, Michael R (2015) Understanding preload reserve using functional hemodynamic monitoring. Intensive Care Med 41:1480-2 |
| Monnet, Xavier; Pinsky, Michael R (2015) Predicting the determinants of volume responsiveness. Intensive Care Med 41:354-6 |
Showing the most recent 10 out of 75 publications
