Effects of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy Assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Electrical Impedance Tomography; High-flow Nasal Cannula

Treatments: Other: High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04245241

EIT-HFNC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to determine the effects of HFNC therapy on lung recruitment and lung strain change assessed by electrical impedance tomography (EIT)

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Patient who received a HENC therapy within 24 h after the extubation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Aged <18 years
• Pregnancy
• Body mass index (BMI) over 50 kg/m2
• ribcage malformation .any contraindication of using EIT monitoring (automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, chest skin injury, etc.).