NCT00143468

The Specific Elastance in Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ALI/ARDS) Patients

The Specific Elastance in Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ALI/ARDS) Patients: Barotrauma and Volutrauma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Policlinico Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators aim to study the specific elastance in ALI/ARDS patients during invasive mechanical ventilation.

Detailed description

In sedated and paralyzed ALI/ARDS patients, we studied the specific elastance and also, we compared the specific elastance to healthy subjects during invasive mechanical ventilation.

Conditions

• Acute Lung Injury
• ARDS

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mechanical ventilation	measurement of specific lung elastance during mechanical ventilation

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-03-01
• Primary completion: 2007-03-01
• Completion: 2008-05-01
• First posted: 2005-09-02
• Last updated: 2011-12-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy