The Specific Elastance in Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ALI/ARDS) Patients

Policlinico Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Lung Injury; ARDS

Treatments: Behavioral: mechanical ventilation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00143468

1160

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to study the specific elastance in ALI/ARDS patients during invasive mechanical ventilation.

Full description

In sedated and paralyzed ALI/ARDS patients, we studied the specific elastance and also, we compared the specific elastance to healthy subjects during invasive mechanical ventilation.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Stable ALI/ARDS patients during invasive mechanical ventilation

Exclusion criteria

• Hemodynamic failure, pneumothorax

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

ALI/ARDS patients and healthy subjects

Treatment:

Behavioral: mechanical ventilation