Effects of Different Assisted Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ALI/ARDS) Patients: Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV), Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) and Controlled by Patient

Policlinico Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: ALI/ARDS Patients

Treatments: Procedure: NAVA; Procedure: PSV; Procedure: patient-controlled

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00576771

222222

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators' aim is to study the effect of pressure support ventilation versus neurally adjusted assist (NAVA) and controlled by patient in mechanically ventilated ALI/ARDS subjects.

Full description

In this study, PSV is compared with NAVA and assisted mechanically ventilation controlled by patient through a button. Inclusion criteria are: assisted mechanically ventilated ALI/ARDS patients.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ALI/ARDS patients

Exclusion criteria

• Haemodynamic instability
• Barotrauma
• COPD

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

ALI/ARDS patients evaluated the effect of PSV, NAVA and assisted controlled mechanical ventilation by patient through a button

Treatment:

Procedure: PSV

Procedure: NAVA

Procedure: patient-controlled