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Filter by:In the United States, the current standard of prehospital (i.e. outside of hospitals) emergency care for children with life-threatening illnesses in the community includes remote physician support for paramedics providing life-saving therapy while transporting the child to the hospital. Most prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) agencies use radio-based (audio only) communication between paramedics and physicians to augment this care. However, this communication strategy is inherently limited as the remote physician cannot visualize the patient for accurate assessment and to direct treatment. The purpose of this pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate whether use of a 2-way audiovisual connection with a pediatric emergency medicine expert (intervention = "telemedical support") will improve the quality of care provided by paramedics to infant simulator mannequins with life threatening illness (respiratory failure). Paramedics receiving real-time telemedical support by a pediatric expert may provide better care due to decreased cognitive burden, critical action checking, protocol verification, and error correction. Because real pediatric life-threatening illnesses are rare, high stakes events and involve a vulnerable population (children), this RCT will test the effect of the intervention on paramedic performance in simulated cases of pediatric medical emergencies. The two specific aims for this research are: - Aim 1: To test the intervention efficacy by determining if there is a measurable difference in the frequency of serious safety events between study groups - Aim 2: To compare two safety event detection methods, medical record review, and video review
The purpose of this observational study is to understand how adults who survive acute respiratory failure (ARF) and the people (usually family) who support ARF survivors after returning home think about the first 6 months of recovery. The study aims to find out if expectations about the recovery process after ARF are associated with mental health symptoms in both survivors and the survivor's care partners. Study participants will complete 3 surveys over 6 months. These surveys ask questions about participants' future expectations, feelings, and mood. Surveys can be completed online, over the phone, or on paper.
The study is a multicentric prospective randomised cross-over study. It evaluates the compatibility of patients with the device without altering the routine treatment applied. During this evaluation, either the clinician-adjusted values on the device or the standard pre-set values are used to obtain hourly and 30-minute PVA (Patient Ventilator Asynchrony) recordings. These recordings will be analysed offline to identify the settings used and to compare the hourly and 30-minute PVA (Patient Ventilator Asynchrony) values when synchronisation is automatically set. The relationships and differences between these values will be analysed. For this purpose, the IntelliSync+ option, already available on the device, will be used. This software continuously analyses waveform signals at least a hundred times per second. This allows for the immediate detection of patient efforts and the initiation of inspiration and expiration in real time, thereby replacing traditional trigger settings for inspiration and expiration. If the patient is already synchronised with this option, it will then be possible to switch to traditional synchronisation settings for comparison. Statistical analyses will be conducted using SPSS 24.0, JASP (Just Another Statistical Programme), Jamovi ( fork of JASP), or R software. Initially, all numerical and categorical data will be evaluated using descriptive statistical methods. The distributions of numerical variables will be examined using visual (histograms and probability plots) and analytical methods (Kolmogorov-Smirnov/Shapiro-Wilk tests). Mean/SD (standard deviation) or median/interquartile range (IQR) will be used as measures of distribution. For comparing numerical data that follows a normal distribution, the Student-t test will be used, and for non-normally distributed data, the Mann-Whitney U or Wilcoxon signed-rank tests will be employed. PVA (Patient Ventilator Asynchrony) values will be statistically compared. For the analysis of categorical data, the Chi-Square test will be applied. Bayesian analysis may also be used as necessary during the writing of the study. The results obtained will be interpreted and reported by the researchers. Results with a "p" value below 0.05 will be considered statistically significant.
To evaluate, through a randomized clinical trial in groups/clusters (stepped wedge), the impact of specific bundles for disability prevention and early rehabilitation, focused on 3 domains (ICU, Ward and post-discharge), on health-related quality of life and other long- and short-term outcomes in critically ill patients affected by hypoxemic acute respiratory failure with suspected COVID-19.
Background The exacerbation of respiratory failure that occurs after endotracheal intubation often occurs in patients who have received mechanical ventilation therapy, and when it occurs, it emerges as an important issue to consider reintubation of endotracheal intubation. High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) through nasal cannula is known to produce positive airway pressure and deliver a certain amount of oxygen, and recently reported clinical studies have demonstrated the effect of lowering the risk of reintubation after endotracheal intubation, which is recommended for use in recent clinical practice guidelines. However, in patients at high risk of intubation failure, the combination of high-flow oxygen therapy and non-invasive positive-pressure ventilation therapy rather than the application of high-flow oxygen therapy alone through nasal cannula is helpful in reducing the rate of reintubation of endotracheal intubation. However, an alternative to non-invasive positive-pressure ventilation therapy is needed as there is a possibility of complications such as aspiration pneumonia, maladaptation of the application device (mask), and discomfort, making it difficult to apply it in the field. Recently, it has been reported that high flow oxygen therapy through an asymmetric nasal cannula forms sufficient positive pressure in terms of respiratory dynamics, which makes the patient feel comfortable and reduces work of breath. However, no clinical studies have yet compared physiological effects using this method in patients at high risk of extubation failure. Goal The investigators would like to compare the physiological effects of high flow oxygen therapy through 'asymmetric nasal cannula' with high flow oxygen therapy through 'standard nasal cannula' in patients identified as high-risk groups for valvular failure. Hypothesis 'Asymmetric nasal cannula' reduces work of breath compared to 'standard nasal cannula' in high-risk patients with valvular failure.
Non-invasive ventilation is a mechanical ventilation who provides ventilatory support through a facemask, and without the need for tracheal intubation. In the emergency department, non-invasive ventilation is commonly used for the management of acute respiratory failure related with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or with cardiogenic pulmonary oedema. Non-invasive ventilation is associated with an improvement in the outcomes, such as a decreasing in the intubation rate and in the mortality rate. Non-invasive ventilation failure is defined by a requirement to tracheal intubation in a patient managed by non-invasive ventilation. In the intensive care unit, non-invasive ventilation failure is reported from 15 to 50% of patients according to the ARF aetiologies. Due to delayed intubation, non-invasive ventilation failure is associated with poor outcomes and an increasing in the mortality rate. Due to the emergency department's patients (older and/or not to be intubate patients) the actual definition of non-invasive ventilation failure could not be applied as non-invasive ventilation may have been stopped not because it was unsuccessful but because it was unsuccessful in a patient with a do not intubate decision. Consequently, the prevalence of the absence of non-invasive ventilation success in the emergency department is unclear, and its predictive factor are unknown. The aim is to measure the prevalence of the absence of non-invasive ventilation success in the emergency department. The secondary objective is to measure the association between an absence of non-invasive ventilation success and outcomes and to identify risk factor of an absence of non-invasive ventilation success in the emergency department. It's a prospective observationnal multicenter study in department of Initiative Recherche Urgences Study Groups from January 2024, 15th to January 2024, 20th. The Initiative Recherche Urgences is a research network set up on the initiative of the Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence, with the aim of promoting and coordinating multicentre research projects in the field of emergency medicine, during short inclusion periods. The primary outcome is the proportion of patients who do not have an early success of non-invasive ventilation. The investigators measure the absence of success instead of failure because failure is defined by intubation and most of patients managed with non-invasive ventilation in an emergency department will not be intubated because of their age. The absence of success is defined by at least one of the following criteria measured at 1-hour: death, cardiorespiratory arrest, tracheal intubation, respiratory rate over 30 breaths/min, neurological impairment defined by a Glasgow coma scale < 14, signs of increased work of breathing, haemodynamic failure (defined by mean arterial pressure < 65 mmHg despite volumetric expansion and/or catecholamines), early stop of non-invasive ventilation due to intolerance. The investigators choose to measure at one hour because non-invasive ventilation is provided from one to two hours in the emergency department.
A sub-nasal mask with a skirt that fits the nostrils and with a dedicated port for the nasogastric tube has recently been introduced. This interface has never been compared to nasal-oral masks. We hypothesise that such a sub-nasal mask increases comfort compared to a conventional naso-oral mask. The primary objective is to compare the comfort of the sub-nasal mask with that of a standard naso-oral mask.
Mechanically ventilated intensive care patients will be sampled for a small amount of exhaled breath condensate from the ventilator circuit and for venous blood. Proteomic analysis of the exhaled breath condensate will be performed using mass spectrometry and in the blood sample, corresponding changes in the DNA, RNA, proteins, and metabolites will be studied. Resulting profiles will be correlated with routinely monitored parameters in order to identify patterns corresponding to various pathologies in order to enable their early detection.
The objectives of this study are to compare the physiological consequences of high-flow oxygen therapy and noninvasive mechanical ventilation on ventilation, respiratory work and hemodynamics during acute respiratory failure in diffuse interstitial pneumonia.
The goal of this study is to better understand in changes in lung compliance as indicated by driving pressure (a non-invasive marker) following changes in positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP; a standard of care ventilator parameter). The main question it aims to answer is: The time to stability of driving pressure after a change in PEEP is made Type of study: observational study participant population/health conditions Participants will undergo a "best PEEP trial" which is a standard intensive care intervention for patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. This involves changing the patient's PEEP and looking for response in driving pressure. This will be done in a more protocolized format and data will be collected.