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NCT Number: NCT07392918

Esophageal Pressure-guided Personalized Recruitment Pressure During Pneumoperitoneum in Trendelenburg Position Laparoscopy

This is a prospective, single-center, double-blind, randomized controlled trial designed to investigate the individual differences in recruitment efficacy and safety between personalized lung recruitment pressure based on esophageal pressure and conventional fixed lung recruitment pressure. The intervention involved calculating personalized lung recruitment pressure using inspiratory and expiratory esophageal pressures measured via a transnasal esophageal balloon catheter, which was then compared with a fixed pressure of 30 cmH₂O, each applied to maintain a single-cycle lung recruitment maneuver for 10 seconds. A total of 90 patients undergoing elective tracheal intubation under general anesthesia for head-down laparoscopic surgery were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group. The primary outcome was post-recruitment lung compliance, and secondary outcomes included driving pressure, peak airway pressure (Ppeak), modified LUS score, gas exchange indices, hemodynamic parameters, length of stay in PACU after extubation, incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) on day 3 after surgery, and the rate of non-surgical antibiotic use.

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Key information

Conditions

Esophageal Pressure Recruitment Maneuver

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

1.Age 18-65 years.2.No restriction on sex.3.ASA physical status classification I-III.4.Scheduled for elective tracheal intubation under general anesthesia in the ead-down (Trendelenburg) position for laparoscopic surgery.5.No recent history of pulmonary infection or respiratory disease, and no prior respiratory-system surgery.

Exclusion criteria

1.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or cor pulmonale.2.Poorly controlled chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus or hypertension.3.Cardiac dysfunction.4.Recent use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or corticosteroids.5.Esophageal pathology (contraindication to esophageal balloon catheter placement).6.History of esophageal surgery.7.Contraindications to lung recruitment maneuvers: intracranial hypertension, hypovolemic shock, right-heart failure.

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Treatment and study plan

Esophageal Pressure

Procedure

A transnasally placed esophageal balloon catheter was inserted. Following a positive-pressure occlusion test, end-inspiratory and end-expiratory esophageal pressures (Pes) were measured to estimate pleural pressure, thereby enabling the calculation of transpulmonary pressure in the non-dependent lung regions.Under conditions of homogeneous lung parenchyma, the physiological upper limit of transpulmonary pressure is 20 cmH₂O. To achieve this upper limit at end-inspiration in the non-dependent lung tissue, the lung recruitment pressure is calculated with the formula: P = 20 × ΔP / [ΔP - (Pes_insp - Pes_exp)], where the maximum pressure does not exceed 40 cmH₂O. Using the calculated pressure, a single-cycle recruitment maneuver is performed both 30 minutes after pneumoperitoneum establishment and before the end of surgery, each maintained for 10 seconds.

Other names: Transpulmonary Pressure, Pleural Pressure

Lung recruitment maneuver

Procedure

A single-cycle lung recruitment maneuver was performed at a fixed pressure of 30 cmH₂O for 10 seconds, both 30 minutes after pneumoperitoneum establishmentand immediately before the end of surgery.

Primary outcomes

  1. Lung Compliance

    Time frame: From the establishment of pneumoperitoneum until the end of surgery.

    Lung compliance refers to the change in lung volume per unit change in pressure. It was obtained immediately after the lung recruitment maneuver by recording the value displayed on the anesthesia machine.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Ju Gao

CONTACT

[email protected]

18051063988

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ju Gao

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Esophageal Pressure-guided Personalized Recruitment Pressure During Pneumoperitoneum in Trendelenburg Position Laparoscopy: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Feb 6, 2026
Registry last updated
Feb 6, 2026

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