PEEP Test and Gas Exchange in ALI/ARDS Patients

Policlinico Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Treatments: Procedure: Mechanical ventilation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00284102

1700

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to study the effect of different levels of PEEP in ALI/ARDS patients on gas exchange.

Full description

In a population of ALI/ARDS patients during mechanical ventilation we will evaluate the effect of different levels of PEEP on gas exchange and dead space.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ALI/ARDS patients requiring mechanical ventilation

Exclusion criteria

• Hemodynamic instability
• Barotrauma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

ALI/ARDS patients

Treatment:

Procedure: Mechanical ventilation