NCT01530282

Non-invasive Measurements of Elastance and Resistance

Non-invasive Respiratory Mechanics Assessment During Spontaneous / Assisted Breathing: The ERNI (Elastance, Resistance, Non Invasive Measurements) Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Turin, Italy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to assess the agreement between respiratory mechanics parameters measured noninvasively by means of brief airways occlusions at the beginning of inspiration and the reference parameters obtained with standard techniques of esophageal and gastric pressure under static and dynamic conditions in a mixed population of ICU patients mechanically ventilated in pressure support ventilation mode.

Conditions

• Respiratory Insufficiency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Invasive method	Esophageal and gastric catheters to measure respiratory mechanics (static and dynamic)
OTHER	Non invasive method	Non\_invasive method: airway pressure measured during a 150-200 ms at the beginning of inspiration

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-02-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2012-02-09
• Last updated: 2012-02-09