Ventilation Weaning Strategies and Correlation to Outcomes in Tracheostomized Patients in the Lausanne ICU

Piquilloud Imboden Lise

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiratory Failure; Tracheostomy Complication

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04987398

TRACH-CHANGE

Details and patient eligibility

About

This retrospective study aims to study characteristics of patients tracheotomized in the Lausanne ICU, both overall and by primary reasons of intubation. Ventilation data both before and after tracheotomy, weaning technique and timing are studied in this retrospective study.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients hospitalized in the Lausanne ICU between May 1st 2017 and November 31st 2018 with a tracheotomy and mechanically ventilated more than 72 hours.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of a know opposition to participation to research projects
• Patient tracheostomized specifically for ENT (ear-nose-throat) reason
• Burn victim
• Patient tracheostomized before his/her admission to the Lausanne ICU

Trial design

80 participants in 3 patient groups

Intubation for respiratory reasons

Description:

All patients who were intubated for respiratory reasons (i.e. acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonias, pleural effusions for example)

Intubation for neurological reasons

Description:

All patients who were intubated for neurological reasons (i.e. stroke, intracranial bleeding, cervical fracture with tetraparesia for example)

Intubation for other reasons

Description:

All patients who were intubated for other reasons than respiratory or neurological (i.e. intubation before surgery, cardiac arrest, hemodynamic instability and polytraumatism without respiratory distress or neurological pathology necessitating intubation)