Eduardo Moya-Gallardo, Patricio Garcia-Valdés, Consuelo Marambio-Coloma, Constanza Gutierrez-Escobar, Betsabeth Hernández-Vargas, Carolina Muñoz-Castro, Santiago Riquelme-Sánchez, Joel Moo-Millan, Roque Basoalto, Alejandro Bruhn, Orlando Diaz, L Felipe Damiani
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Abstract
Introduction: High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has increased exercise capacity in patients with chronic respiratory diseases. However, it remains unknown whether HFNC impacts respiratory physiological variables during exercise. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of HFNC on respiratory physiological variables during sustained high-intensity exercise in healthy volunteers.
Methods: We performed a single-centre, open-label, randomised crossover trial to compare HFNC (60 L·min-1) and Sham-HFNC (2 L·min-1) interventions during a constant work rate exercise (CWRET) through randomised order. The primary outcome was change in oesophageal pressure (ΔPoes), and the secondary outcomes were other variables of inspiratory effort, ventilation distribution, ventilatory variables and clinical assessment. We evaluated volunteers at seven time points (baseline=T0; CWRET=T1-T2-T3 (1, 4 and 6 min); cooldown period=T4-T5-T6 (1, 6 and 10 min)) in both interventions.
Results: 14 healthy volunteers (50% women; age: 22 (21-27) years) were enrolled. Mean differences in ΔPoes decreased to favour the HFNC intervention compared to Sham-HFNC at T2 (-2.8 cmH2O; 95% CI -5.3 to -0.3), as well as the simplified oesophageal pressure-time product (sPTP) per minute at T2 (-86.1 cmH2O·s·min-1; 95% CI -146.2 to -26.1) and T3 (-79.9 cmH2O·s·min-1; 95% CI -142.3 to -17.6). The standard deviation of the Regional Ventilation Delay index was also lower with HFNC compared to Sham-HFNC (T1: -1.38; 95% CI -1.93 to -0.83; T2: -0.71; 95% CI -1.27 to -0.16). There was decreased dyspnoea to favour the HFNC, but sPTP per breath, spatial distribution ventilation indexes, ventilatory variables and clinical assessments were nonsignificant between interventions.
Conclusion: HFNC intervention reduces respiratory effort and dyspnoea and improves temporal ventilation distribution in healthy volunteers during CWRET.
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ERJ Open Research is a fully open access original research journal, published online by the European Respiratory Society. The journal aims to publish high-quality work in all fields of respiratory science and medicine, covering basic science, clinical translational science and clinical medicine. The journal was created to help fulfil the ERS objective to disseminate scientific and educational material to its members and to the medical community, but also to provide researchers with an affordable open access specialty journal in which to publish their work.