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Filter by:ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation) is a blood oxygenation technical and purification of carbon dioxide by means of an extracorporeal circulation using a pump (identical to those used in cardiac surgery) and a membrane permitting gas exchange. This technique is used for almost 40 years in the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) but benefited from many technology improvements over the past 10 years. The circuit is now fully pre-heparin, not imposing obtaining activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) high. Centrifugal pumps limit the risk of intravascular hemolysis. The multi-perforated drainage cannula in place in femoral vein or jugular no longer need to maintain hypervolaemia to ensure sufficient flow. The membrane ensuring gas exchange is now polymethylpentene. This hollow fiber system ensures the gas exchange. In light of recent technical improvements, manufacturers indicate that the membranes can be used for 3 weeks. However, after a few days of use, fibrinoplaquettaires microthrombi form at the ECMO circuit, up from cannulas up to the oxygenator, decreasing membrane efficiency and imposing more early changes of the circuit. This hypercoagulable state was revealed through the study of classical plasma markers of coagulation. There is not so far from reliable predictive marker of thrombus formation, indicating a need to change the circuit. The production of microparticles (MPs) is a characteristic of cells subjected to an activation or apoptosis. MPs are membrane Smaller fragments released into the extracellular milieu after rupture of the asymmetry of the distribution of membrane phospholipids and characterized by the presence of phosphatidylserine (PhtdSer) on their surface, as well as various antigens expressed by their cells of origin. The PhtdSer is a pro-coagulating surface on which are going to assemble the enzymes responsible for the formation of thrombin and increases proportionally the TF activity ultimately leading to fibrin polymerization in the vessels. The vesiculation phenomenon exists in healthy subjects. In human pathology, many examples emphasize the fundamental role of MP in clotting or thrombosis. The PM generating fault is associated with bleeding disorders (Scott syndrome, dysvésiculation syndrome). Conversely, high circulating levels of MP are found in many thrombotic diseases (myocardial infarction, diabetes, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, preeclampsia ...). Platelet and intense monocyte endothelial activation, observed in sepsis and severe trauma, is accompanied by the generation of procoagulant MP carriers of tissue factor (TF). These MP diffuse into the vascular compartment pathogenic potential may exacerbate inflammatory and thrombotic responses and play a leading role in triggering the DIC. More recently, various studies have shown that the microparticles are not only activation markers or injury, but also cellular elements having a true pathogenic role. Because they contain or express on their surface various biological effector (adhesion molecules, tissue factor, inflammatory mediators or apoptogenic, growth factor ...) the microparticles are able to interact with their environment and modulate cellular very different way the properties of target cells. And platelet or leukocyte microparticles could actively participate in the thrombotic process by increasing adhesion of monocytes and endothelial cells, or by inducing endothelial procoagulant response.
The purpose of this piece of research is to assess the effect of altitude on the clinical evolution of ARDS. For this purpose, patients who live and receive care at sea level are compared with those who live and receive care at high altitudes. For reasons of convenience, a cut-point of 1500 meters above sea level was chosen. In addition to this, it will be sought to assess whether adjusting the cut-points for the severity categories of ARDS improves the ability to predict some adverse events, by comparison with unadjusted cut-points. The results of this research will probably be disruptive, and will provide the first information yet about the effect of altitude on ARDS; they will therefore be of great interest for the international scientific community and for the direct care of patients. A high bibliometric impact is to be expected.
ECMO(Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is being essential for cardiopulmonary failure patients. There are two types of ECMO, which is veno-veno (V-V) that can be used in respiratory failure patients and veno-arterial (V-A) that can be used in cardiac failure patients. V-A ECMO can also be used during lung transplantation, substitution of cardiopulmonary bypass, which can show sufficient performance during operation and better postoperative outcome. However, regarding V-A ECMO circulating from femoral vein to femoral artery, there is a pro blem of differential hypoxia which might influence coronary artery and head vessels. In this prospective study, the investigators are planning to put another ECMO catheter into internal jugular vein which takes a role of left to right shunt, to mitigate the hypoxia of coronary artery.
Prone positioning has been shown to improve survival in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, a recent large observational study found that prone positioning was used in only 7% of all ARDS patients, and 16% in the severe category. However, this study did not focus on the prone position per se. In present study, the investigators would like to explore the rate of use of prone positioning in ARDS patients and the reasons why this treatment was not applied. The present study is one-day prevalence study repeated four times over one year. The hypothesis is that the rate of use of prone position is greater than 50% in the severe ARDS category.
Current definitions of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) could be adequate for epidemiological studies but are not adequate for inclusion of patients into therapeutic clinical trials. It is a matter of debate whether the assessment of hypoxemia at ARDS onset is appropriate for stratifying lung severity and risk of death in ARDS patients. The investigators will perform an observational, non-interventional, multicenter, prospective audit in a network of intensive care units in Spain for evaluating the severity and risk of death based on the assessment of respiratory and ventilatory function at 24 hours after ARDS diagnosis under standardized ventilatory conditions. This study is the confirmatory phase of the study NCT02288949.
It is acknowledged that IL-18, as a product of the inflammasome, is involved in host defence against viral and bacterial stimuli by modulating the immune response. The aim of this study was to determine IL-18 levels in serum of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and to investigate whether corticosteroid attenuate its levels. In addition, to explore the effect of corticosteroid therapy on the prognosis of ARDS.
Despite the use of protective ventilation, neuromuscular blocking agent and prone position, ARDS mortality remains high (30%-50%) in observational studies, and pneumothorax rate in randomized controlled trial remains stable (10%). The driving pressure (the ratio of tidal volume over respiratory system compliance) has recently been strongly associated with ARDS mortality, suggesting that tidal volume reduction below 6ml/kg may offer mortality benefit. While extracorporeal CO2 removal technique are currently under investigation in association with tidal volume reduction
Esophageal pressure measurements are used in moderate/severe Accurate Respiratory Distress SyndromeARDS patients in order to set ventilator settings. There might be variations of the measured value according to the patient position (0° vs 30°) at the time of measurements.
The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is one of common clinical critically diseases. In the United States, the incidence of ARDS reaches 31%, which is one of the main causes of death in patients. There is no unified treatment process for ARDS currently and the treatment measures are not yet standardized, so the standardization of ARDS treatment processes is needed to reduce mortality in patients. Following the evidence-based medicine principles and six-step treatment standards of ARDS, this study uses the method of multi-center randomized controlled clinical trials to evaluate the standardized treatment process of ARDS, which provides the basis for the standardized treatment of ARDS.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn about the safety of giving mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to patients who have ARDS. Researchers also want to learn if these cells can help control ARDS when given with drugs that are routinely used to treat ARDS. In this study, participants will receive 1 infusion of MSCs. This is an investigational study. MSC infusions for the treatment of ARDS is investigational. Up to 20 patients will take part in this study. All will be enrolled at MD Anderson.