NCT04511741

Epidemiological Survey of Children With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 346 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Fudan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Mechanical ventilation is an effective treatment for respiratory failure, no more than ten percent of patients with respiratory failure need long-term mechanical ventilation.

Detailed description

Mechanical ventilation is an effective treatment for respiratory failure, no more than ten percent of patients with respiratory failure need long-term mechanical ventilation. There is a lack of data on children with long-term mechanical ventilation in China.The investigators conducted this study to investigate the clinical characteristics of children with long-term mechanical ventilation in China. The investigators conducted a multicenter clinical epidemiological survey.The study included PICU wards in major children's hospitals in China and investigated the causes of prolonged mechanical ventilation, the outcome of long-term mechanical ventilation.PMV definition: continuous invasive or noninvasive ventilation time ≥ 21 days, daily ≥ 6 hours.

Conditions

• Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	no intervention, it is an observational study.	no intervention, it is an observational study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-15
• Primary completion: 2023-06-15
• Completion: 2023-07-01
• First posted: 2020-08-13
• Last updated: 2026-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China