NCT01142544

Incidence of Acute Lung Injury in Children

Acute Lung Injury in Children: Epidemiology and Natural History: The Pediatric ALIEN Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dr. Negrin University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Acute lung injury in children is a syndrome of rapid onset of acute respiratory failure and require admission into intensive care units (ICU) for advanced life support. There are almost no information on epidemiology of acute lung injury. Published studies do not have information for an entire year and none of them have evaluated the degree of oxygenation failure under standard ventilator settings. The investigators will perform a 1-year prospective audit of all patients admitted with acute lung injury in a network of pediatric ICUs in Spain.

Detailed description

We will evaluate oxygenation under standard ventilator settings (FiO2 0.5 and 1 on PEEP 5 or 10 cmH2O) in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome. Outcome measures will include: overall ICU mortality, number of patients meeting ARDS criteria at 24 hours, and stratification of patients depending on PaO2/FiO2 ratio at 24 h of meeting acute respiratory distress syndrome criteria.

Conditions

• Acute Lung Injury
• Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Evaluation oxygenation under standard ventilator settings	Measure of PaO2 under standard FiO2-PEEP

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-02-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2010-06-11
• Last updated: 2013-02-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain