Lung Sonography in Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Intensive Care Unit

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Status: Completed

Conditions: ARDS

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01881061

UOA-US-2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of lung sonography during different PEEP settings in ICU patients with ARDS.

Full description

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a clinical syndrome that often occurs in critically ill patients.

Patients with ARDS invariably require mechanical ventilation to improve oxygen transport. An improvement in oxygenation can be obtained by an increase in positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).

In critically ill patients with ARDS, lung imaging is been held by the use of chest radiography and the "gold standard" technique, Computed Tomography (CT).

We designed an observational study in which we included patients under mechanical ventilation admitted in our ICU. In all patients PEEP changes were applied and lung sonography was performed.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Critically ill patients with ARDS admitted in ICU of Evangelismos Hospital
• length of stay > 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

• age < 18 years
• emphysema fractures or skin lesions that do not allow the implementation of lung sonography
• BMI > 35 kg/m2
• length of stay < 48 hours