NCT00925860

Non-Positive Pressure Ventilation in Hypoxemic Patients

Non-Positive Pressure Ventilation in Hypoxemic Patients. A Randomized Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Provincial de Castellon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study is aimed to assess the possible benefit of non-positive pressure mechanical support in front of conventional ventilation in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) because of pure hypoxemic respiratory failure.

Detailed description

Pure hypoxemic patients admitted to intensive care unit in a teaching hospital have been randomized to be treated by conventional ventilatory support or non-positive mechanical ventilation support. Those patients who did not benefit from the experimental non-positive ventilatory support, were intubated and conventionally mechanically ventilated and discarded for analysis. The primary outcome was mortality rate in both groups, and secondary outcomes were length of stay, improvement of oxygenation, and reduced complications rates.

Conditions

• Acute Respiratory Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	non positive pressure mechanical ventilatory support

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-06-01
• Primary completion: 2006-06-01
• Completion: 2007-06-01
• First posted: 2009-06-22
• Last updated: 2009-06-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain