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Non-Invasive ventilation (NIV) is a life saving intervention for patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). Some patients are not able to tolerate the NIV intervention and ultimately fail, requiring the use of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and intubation. Sedation may improve a patient's NIV tolerance. However, this practice has not been adopted by intensivists as the risk of over-sedation resulting in respiratory depression, inability to protect the airway, and inadvertent need for intubation are all large deterrents of sedative use in NIV. The Non-invasive Ventilation and Dexmedetomidine in Critically Ill Adults: a Vanguard Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial (inDEX) is looking to evaluate the effectiveness of dexmedetomidine compared to placebo in reducing non-invasive ventilation failures in patients admitted to the hospital with acute respiratory failure. The results from this pilot trial, will subsequently inform a large, pragmatic, powered trial to definitively address the question.


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1. BACKGROUND: Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is a life-saving intervention for patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). Patients may find NIV intolerable and ultimately fail NIV requiring intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Sedation may improve a patient's NIV tolerance. However, this practice has not been adopted by intensivists as the risk of over-sedation resulting in respiratory depression, inability to protect the airway, and inadvertent need for intubation are all large deterrents of sedative use in NIV. Current guidelines lack recommendations on which sedative, if any at all, should be used during NIV due to the paucity of reliable data. Dexmedetomidine (dex) is a relatively new sedative. It promotes patient wakefulness, has no effect on respiratory drive, has important analgesic properties, and when compared to γ-aminobutyric acid receptor agonists like benzodiazepines, reduces delirium. Dex has been recommended to use over benzodiazepines for sedation during IMV in critically ill adults, particularly if delirium is precluding weaning. 2. HYPOTHESIS: We hypothesize that dexmedetomidine, when compared to placebo, reduces NIV failure in hospitalized adults with acute respiratory failure and agitation or NIV intolerance. 3. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility of assessing if dexmedetomidine compared to placebo results in a reduction of non-invasive ventilation failure in patients admitted to the hospital with acute respiratory failure. This will subsequently inform a large, pragmatic, powered trial to definitively address the question. 4. METHODS 4.1 Study design: The inDEX trial is a pragmatic, international, multi-centered, stratified, randomized, parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled vanguard trial. Patients, investigators, healthcare team, data collectors, outcome assessors, and the statistician will be blinded to trial arms. 4.2 Allocation and randomization: Local Research Coordinators (RC) will randomize eligible patients in a fixed 1:1 allocation using undisclosed variable block sizes of four, six, or eight. The randomization will be achieved using a random number sequence prepared by an independent statistician. The independent statistician will have access to the random number sequence and it will be provided to the research pharmacist. Upon request by the local research coordinator, the research pharmacist will provide the care team with either placebo or dexmedetomidine, according to the randomization schedule. 4.3 Blinding: Both dexmedetomidine and normal saline placebo will be given as continuous infusion. To minimize performance and ascertainment biases, and maintain blinding of patients, investigators, clinical staff, and RCs; a Research Pharmacist, who is not involved in assessment of patient outcomes or patient care, will prepare infusion bags. Titration of the infusion rate for both arms will follow an identical volume-based titration algorithm. Despite optimal blinding efforts, it is possible that the care team may be able to determine who is receiving dexmedetomidine based on improvement in NIV tolerance and/or the decrease in heart rate and blood pressure. However, the cointerventions may also improve tolerance, and can certainly cause a reduction in heart rate and blood pressure. ;


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NCT number NCT04878510
Study type Interventional
Source St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
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Status Active, not recruiting
Phase Phase 3
Start date March 7, 2022
Completion date April 1, 2024

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