Clinical trials: Positive End-Expiratory Pressure
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, ARDS
Electrical Impedance Tomography for Optimization of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Doctors follow a standard ventilator management strategy when making adjustments to the breathing machine to optimize the amount of oxygen into the lungs.
- Trial name
- NCT03793842
- Testing
- Usual care, PEEP titration by EIT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Respiratory Failure
NAVA Versus BiPAP Non-Invasive Respiratory Support in Infants Following Congenital Heart Surgery
Pediatric patients often require prolonged mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery which comes with many undesirable effects.
- Trial name
- NAVA (NCT03180385)
- Testing
- Neurally-Adusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA), Biphasic Positive Airway Pressure Support (BiPAP)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Obesity, Morbid, Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
Providing Optimal PEEP During Mechanical Ventilation for Obese Patients Using Esophageal Balloon
This is a research study to determine if identifying an optimal level of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) targeted specifically to individualized patient characteristics will shorten the time on the ventilator.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Morbid, Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury, Respiratory Failure
- Trial name
- PROP OPEN (NCT03951064)
- Testing
- Esophageal balloon, Intervention Spontaneous Breathing Trial (SBT) and Extubation, Control Spontaneous Breathing Trial and Extubation
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Acute Mountain Sickness
Study Looking at End Expiratory Pressure for Altitude Illness Decrease (SLEEP-AID)
The study is examining if an over-the-counter device (Theravent) worn while sleeping can reduce acute mountain sickness upon awakening in a high altitude trekking population.
- Trial name
- SLEEP-AID (NCT01842906)
- Testing
- Theravent, Control
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 219 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Respiratory Insufficiency, Sleep Disordered Breathing
Adjustment of Mask Pressure, for Bilevel Positive Airways Pressure Therapy, by Automated Algorithm
The aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that an automated algorithm for desired mask pressure improves breathing pattern and sleep quality in patients with hypercapnic ventilatory failure.
- Trial name
- NCT01403584
- Testing
- AutoVPAP with addition of AutoEPAP, AutoVPAP with EPAP manually selected
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- ResMed
Anesthesia
Preoxygenation With Positive Inspiratory Pressure During Induction of Anesthesia
Adults patients scheduled for elective surgery were randomly allocated to receive preoxygenation with spontaneous breathing, positive pressure ventilation (positive inspiratory pressure: 12 cmH2O) without PEEP, and with PEEP…
- Trial name
- PREOX (NCT02313766)
- Testing
- PPV : positive pressure ventilation, PEEP : PPV + PEEP
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Caen