Medical Gas Humidification During Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation

Policlinico Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiration, Artificial; Critical Illness

Treatments: Device: MR730

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00124345

1457

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, the investigators aimed to study the role of medical gas humidification during noninvasive mechanical ventilation.

Full description

The medical gases are usually dry and cold thus when they are used during invasive mechanical ventilation they must be conditioned. No data are present on the necessity to condition the medical gases during non invasive mechanical ventilation. In this study the investigators studied the humidity and the temperature of the medical gases with and without any conditioning during non invasive mechanical ventilation in a group of healthy subjects and critically ill patients.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Critically ill patients requiring non invasive mechanical ventilation

Exclusion criteria

• Comatose patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

19 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: MR730