NCT00893087

Comparison of Pressure-, Flow- and Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assistance (NAVA)-Triggering in Pediatric and Neonatal Ventilatory Care

Comparison of Pressure-, Flow- and NAVA-triggering in Pediatric and Neonatal Ventilatory Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Oulu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to study whether neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) provides advantages over current methods in detecting patients own breathing efforts in pediatric and neonatal ventilatory care. Our study hypothesis is that NAVA-technology is more accurate than currently used methods in detecting and assisting spontaneous breathing in children, and thus the patient-ventilator synchrony will improve.

Detailed description

Asynchrony means that the timing of support given by the ventilator is different from patients own breathing pattern. Asynchrony during ventilatory care may increase the risk for complications, make the weaning more difficult and may affect the survival rates. In this study we will compare two currently used methods pressure- and flow-triggering with a neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in synchronization of the ventilator support with patients own efforts.

Conditions

• Respiration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Triggering mode of the ventilator	10 min of each triggering mode
DEVICE	Triggering method of the ventilator	Flow triggering
DEVICE	Triggering method of the ventilator	Pressure triggering
DEVICE	Triggering method of the ventilator	NAVA triggering

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2009-07-01
• Completion: 2009-08-01
• First posted: 2009-05-05
• Last updated: 2010-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland