Clinical trials: Lung Recruitment
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Stacking Exercises Aid the Decline in FVC and Sick Time
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is complicated by weak breathing muscles and lung infections. "Lung volume recruitment" is a technique performed using a face mask or mouthpiece and a hand-held resuscitation bag to stack breaths…
- Trial name
- STEADFAST (NCT01999075)
- Testing
- Lung Volume Recruitment (LVR), Conventional Treatment
- Where
- 9 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Open Lung Ventilation in ARDS: The PHARLAP Trial
Some people develop the condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This is a condition where the lungs have become injured from one of a number of various causes, and do not work as they normally do to provide…
- Trial name
- PHARLAP (NCT01667146)
- Testing
- PHARLAP mechanical ventilation strategy, Control group mechanical ventilation strategy
- Where
- 27 sites in Australia, Ireland and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 115 people
- Sponsor
- Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Acute Lung Injury
Efficacy and Safety of a Lung Recruitment Protocol in Children With Acute Lung Injury
Lung units which participate in gas exchange are known as 'recruited' lung. Patients with lung injury suffer from a proportion of units which do not participate in gas exchange (i.e.
- Trial name
- Recruitment (NCT00830284)
- Testing
- Recruitment maneuver
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital