Non Invasive Ventilation After Cardiac Surgery (CPAP-CCH)

Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiratory Failure

Treatments: Procedure: non invasive ventilation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01249794

GO/URC/ER/mm 183/DG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with respiratory failure following cardiac surgery are randomized to receive standard therapy versus non invasive ventilation. The hypothesis is that patients receiving non invasive ventilation will perform better than those who received standard therapy.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hypoxia

Exclusion criteria

• pneumothorax
• cardiocirculatory instability
• no written consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Best available treatment

No Intervention group

non invasive ventilation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: non invasive ventilation