NCT06286917

Initiation of Noninvasive Ventilation in ALS Patients With Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tampere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research will study whether noninvasive ventilation (NIV) used to treat chronic respiratory insufficiency in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can be initiated as successfully in the outpatient setting as in the conventional inpatient setting, and what the costs of these alternative initiation methods are.

Conditions

• Ventilation Therapy
• ALS
• Chronic Respiratory Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	NIV initiation in patients with ALS	NIV initiation according to standard care

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-05
• Primary completion: 2028-12-01
• Completion: 2029-12-01
• First posted: 2024-02-29
• Last updated: 2026-01-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland