NCT04235231

The Effect of Lateral Tilt on Ventilation Distribution in Lungs Assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography

The Effect of Lateral Tilt on Ventilation Distribution in Lungs Assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography: A Pilot Prospective Randomized Study in Neurocritical Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (actual)
• Sponsor: Regional Hospital Liberec · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Prevention of lung inhomogeneity is an essential part of preventive strategy in neurocritical care, reducing the risks of secondary brain damage from hypoxemia, hypo/hypercapnia or pneumonia.

Detailed description

In the monocentric, intervention, prospective, randomized study, the investigators will examine the effect of lateral tilting (routinely used in critical care) on the lung inhomogeneity that will be analyzed by electrical impedance tomography (EIT) in the unconscious patients with acute primary brain disease and artificial pulmonary ventilation. Two types of lateral tilting will be compared: manual positioning of body by nurse versus the bed tilting (15° lateral tilt, original company (LINET) and product brand name (Eleganza 5).

Conditions

• Lung Collapse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Bed tilting	15° lateral tilt, original product brand name LINET Eleganza 5
OTHER	Body positioning	Manual positioning of body by nurse: left side, back, right side, using positioning pillows

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-01
• Primary completion: 2024-09-17
• Completion: 2024-10-09
• First posted: 2020-01-21
• Last updated: 2025-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Czechia