View clinical trials related to ARDS.
Filter by:The RADAR-Canada trial is a pilot RCT undertaken to assess the acceptability of, compliance with, and biologic consequences of a deresuscitation protocol designed to expedite the removal of excess interstitial fluid in patients who remain in a positive fluid balance following admission to an intensive care unit (ICU).
During cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), oxygenation of the patient on the pump can be left completely under pump control, or the lungs can be ventilated with low tidal volume to reduce atelectasis. In recent years, the concept of mechanical power has been used to determine the extent of ventilator-related lung damage. This concept of mechanical power, by which the energy transferred by the ventilator to the lungs can be calculated, will be measured at certain intervals in CPB surgery patients on the pump and compared between the two groups. The investigators aimed to investigate the effect of two different ventilation methods on mechanical power and its relationship with postoperative pulmonary complications.
Patients who are very ill either due to a severe infection, major organ injury, trauma or a major operation may require significant support with devices such as a dialysis machine for the kidneys or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for the heart and lungs. This is often due to a reaction of the body to the insult which is termed inflammation. The investigators would like to assess if the use of a device that can remove the agents driving this reaction can lead to a quicker recovery form the illness. The device is a blood filter called HA380 and it would be connected to either the dialysis machine or the ECMO circuit. The investigators want to assess the feasibility of conducting a study with the HA380 column. We will also evaluate if the use of the HA380 column has an effect on the time spent on dialysis or ECMO, time spent on the breathing machine, time spent requiring drugs to support blood pressure and time spent in the intensive care unit.
Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) may require breathing support with machines depending on the condition. Throughout the breathing support, the settings on the breathing machines will be tailored to the patient's requirements. These settings are manually adjusted by trained physicians. Currently, there are machines which can automatically change the settings based on real-time specific information obtained from the patient. This study aims to compare the use of machines which require manual adjustments (open-loop conventional ventilators) and machines which can automatically change the settings (closed-loop automated ventilators). Patients will be carefully selected to ensure no harm is caused whilst delivering the best care. This study will look into the duration when patients are receiving optimum settings and levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood. The outcomes of this study would allow us to identify methods to improve patient care.
Advanced stages of the response to life-threatening infection, severe trauma, or other physiological insults often lead to exhaustion of the homeostatic mechanisms that sustain normal blood pressure and oxygenation. These syndromic presentations often meet the diagnostic criteria of sepsis and/or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the two most common syndromes encountered in the intensive care unit (ICU). Although critical illness syndromes, such as sepsis and ARDS, have separate clinical definitions, they often overlap clinically and share several common injury mechanisms. Moreover, there are no specific therapies for critically ill patients, and as a consequence, approximately 1 in 4 patients admitted to the ICU will not survive. The purpose of this observational study is to identify early patient biologic factors that are present at the time of ICU admission that will help diagnose critical illness syndromes earlier, identify who could benefit most from specific therapies, and enable the discovery of new treatments for syndromes such as sepsis and ARDS.
This study aim to compare the effect of Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) on ventilation/perfusion mismatch in two phenotypes of patients with moderate-to-severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), characterized by their respiratory system elastance (Ers). Ventilation/perfusion mismatch will be assessed by Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT).
The efficacy of the allogeneic cell-therapy product MesenCure in addition to standard of care will be evaluated in comparison to placebo control in 300 moderate to severe Covid patients
Mortality of patients with COVID-19 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS) treated with veno-venous extra-corporal membrane oxygenation (vv-ECMO) is increasing over time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives were to retrospectively describe over the first ten days after vv-ECMO implantation, the ventilatory management of CARDS and to assess the impact of static respiratory system compliance (CRS) on the first day of vv-ECMO on 180-day mortality.
The present multicenter prospective observational study aims to assess the long-term effects of COVID-19 on patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). This is a hybrid design study with components of cohort and case-control designs. Survivors of hospitalization due to ARDS caused by SARS-CoV-2, survivors of hospitalization due to ARDS caused by other etiologies not associated with SARS-CoV-2, and family controls without history of COVID-19 or hospitalization will be followed up for a period of 6 months.
Primary Research Question for the Full ULTIMATE Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT): What is the effect of ultra-protective ventilation facilitated by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) versus best current conventional ventilation (CV) on all-cause hospital mortality among patients with early moderate-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? Secondary Research Questions: Among patients with early moderate-severe ARDS, what is the effect of ultra-protective ventilation versus CV on: (1) duration of mechanical ventilation; (2) duration of ICU and hospital stay; (3) organ dysfunction; (4) barotrauma; and (5) mortality at other time-points (ICU discharge, 28-day, 60-day)? The ULTIMATE Pilot Study: Before embarking on a definitive multinational trial to address the questions listed above, the ULTIMATE Pilot Study has these 3 specific feasibility objectives: 1. To assess adherence to our explicit mechanical ventilation protocols, with particular focus on delivered tidal volumes in both groups; 2. To estimate the rate of patient recruitment and understand barriers to recruitment; and 3. To measure and understand the reasons for crossovers or rescue by ECMO in the control group. In addition, we will monitor safety issues, recording serious adverse events in both groups.