Combining Electrical Impedance Tomography and Thoracic Ultrasound Toinvestigate Dynamic Changes

National Taiwan University

Status: Begins enrollment this month

Conditions: ARDS (Moderate or Severe)

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Electrical impedance tomography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06958770

202502091RIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. To evaluate the dynamic changes of lung ultrasound during electrical impedance tomography (EIT) PEEP titration and across the first week of ARDS.
2. To asses respiratory effort by diaphragmatic function, esophageal pressure, and EIT (Pendelluft phenomenon), and hyperinflammatory biomarkers, to predict P-SILI.
3. To develop predictive models for weaning success based on integrated EELI and thoracic ultrasound.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult >18 y/o.
• Patient intubated and receiving mechanical ventilation > 24 hours.
• Admitted into ICU, diagnosed as moderate or severe ARDS (ICD-10-CM: J80) according to Berlin definition.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of Implanted Electronic Devices (pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators).
• Pregnancy.
• No consent/inability to obtain consent and appropriate legal representative not available.