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Body Positioning and Pulmonary Aeration During Mechanical Ventilation

H

Hospital Moinhos de Vento

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Critical Illness

Treatments

Device: Orthostatic board posture
Other: Bedside sitting posture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04176445
3.243.829

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present randomized crossover clinical trial aims to evaluate the influence of different body postures on pulmonary aeration among mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Patients admitted to the intensive care unit receiving invasive mechanical ventilation >24 hours, and without contraindications to mobilization, will be randomly assigned to one of two sequences of interventions at a single day: arm 1: bedside sitting posture followed by orthostatic board at 45º and 60º; arm 2: orthostatic board at 45º, 60º and 80º followed by bedside sitting posture. Each postural protocol (bedside sitting posture protocol or orthostatic board posture protocol) will last 30 minutes. A washout window period between 1,5h and 2,5h will be applied between the two postural interventions. The primary outcome is the lung aeration assessed using the Lung Ultrasound Score (LUS) performed by trained evaluators at the end of postural protocol. Secondary outcomes include ventilatory mechanics (static compliance, airway resistance and respiratory work), PaO2/FiO2 ratio, Level of consciousness according to the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS), and adverse events (hypertension, hypotension, tachicardia, bradycardia, tachypnea, bradypnea, decreased level of consciousness, patient distress, fall to knees, invasive device traction or loss, filter hemodialysis clotting or disruption).

Enrollment

19 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 18 years or older; Invasive Mechanical Ventilation > 24 hours; no weaning expectation on screening day for study eligibility; Signature of Informed Consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients using vasoative drugs (noradrenaline > 0.2mcg/kg/min or sodium nitroprosside > 1mcg/kg/min);
  • Increase > 50% in noradrenaline dose in the last 2 hours; since exceeds 0,1 mcg / kg / min in that period;
  • Inclusion of norepinephrine in the last 2 hours, with the dose > 0.1mcg/kg/min;
  • Heart rate less than 40 beats per min or more than 130 beats per min
  • Active myocardial ischaemia;
  • Systolic blood pressure more than 200 mmHg,
  • Mean arterial blood pressure less than 65 mm Hg or more than 110 mm Hg;
  • Arrhythmia
  • Intra-aortic balloon
  • RASS <-4 ou > +1;
  • Intracranial hypertension;
  • Patient agitation
  • External ventricular drain;
  • Neurologic and/or orthopedic conditions that prevented orthostatism
  • spinal cord injury) or
  • Spinal cord injury and/or risk od instabilitity
  • Acute stroke;
  • orthopedic fractures in the lower limf
  • Inability to walk with- out assistance before acute ICU illness (use of a cane or walkers its not exclusions;
  • MRC > 3 MMII;
  • Major pressure ulcers in the calcaneal region;
  • FiO2 > 60%
  • Positive end-epiratory pressure > 10cmH2O;
  • Pulse oximetry less than 88%
  • Respiratory rate less than 5 breaths per min or more than 40 breaths per min
  • Neuromuscular blocking;
  • Reserved Prognosis;
  • Peritoneostomy;
  • Temperature> 38.5 °C;
  • Active gastrointestinal blood loss
  • Intra-abdominal Hypertension;
  • Thrombocytopenia (platelet count <50 000);
  • Diarrhea;
  • Hyperglycemia, with HGT < 70mg/g
  • Intermittent haemodialysis
  • Large abdominal surgery
  • Continuous Epidural infusion

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

19 participants in 2 patient groups

Bedside Sitting followed by Orthostatic Board
Other group
Description:
Bedside sitting posture protocol followed by orthostatic board posture protocol.
Treatment:
Other: Bedside sitting posture
Device: Orthostatic board posture
Orthostatic Board followed by Bedside Sitting
Other group
Description:
Orthostatic board posture protocol followed by bedside sitting posture protocol.
Treatment:
Other: Bedside sitting posture
Device: Orthostatic board posture

Trial documents
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