Active clinical trials for "Respiratory Insufficiency"

The purpose of this study is to describe the magnitude of respiratory complications after laparoscopic hysterectomy and cholecystectomy.

To verify with a specific questionnaire, the families' perceived quality of end-of-life care and of dying in the last 3 months of life of 168 patients (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Restrictive disorders-Neuromuscular disease- others) with chronic respiratory failure needing domiciliary mechanical ventilation (MV).

The evidence-based approach to wean and consecutively extubate patients is based solely on objective criteria/tests. The introduction of subjective criteria could further improve the actual method.

This is a Quasi-experimental research design. The subjects are limited in intensive care unit within north medical center hospital. All subjects depend on ventilator and receive weaning plans. Experimental group is weaning with the support of negative pressure ventilator .The investigators collect basic personal variables in the questionnaire, APACHE Ⅱ scale, Dyspnea scale and arterial blood gas analysis and ventilator weaning index. Compare experimental group and control group data. Data will be Statistical analyzed by: descriptive statistics (such as: mean, standard deviation, median, frequency, percentage) and inferential statistics (such as: Independent T-test, Pair T-test, Mann-Whitney U test), P-value <0.05 will consider to be statistically significant.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a means of artificially performing the function of the human lung and/or heart outside the body. Its use is escalating in a wide range of clinical settings in the adult population without evidence or guidelines to support this practice. This study involves a nationwide questionnaire which has two components. The initial pilot survey will attempt to identify all institutions currently practicing ECMO or those intending to do so in the future, and are willing to participate in prospective data collection. The second phase will involve a monthly survey of these centres regarding the extent of ECMO use, practice details implemented, and outcome data. It is hoped that the collection of this information will later assist in the development of guidelines for this expensive and presently unsubstantiated practice, together with the construction of appropriate training programs for staff.

Rib fractures are the most frequent injury after blunt thoracic trauma. It is very important to choose the most appropriate interventions to prevent complications. But who will benefit most of those interventions remains a challenge. This study analyses the correlation between chest X-Ray and CT scan. We also analyse different scores to predict respiratory failure.

Nasal high flow is widely used in critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. It has been shown to improve patient comfort, increase oxygenation and reduce need for intubation in some patients. The Respiratory Oxygenation (ROX) index has been established as a simple tool to help clinicians identify those patients who will succeed and those who will fail under nasal high flow and therefore predict the need for intubation. However, when nasal high flow therapy is successful, little is known as to how and when weaning of this device should be performed and what are the predictors of a safe withdrawal of the device. The objectives of this retrospective exploratory study are to identify a cut-off value of the ROX index predictive of success of the withdrawal trial, to describe a one-year use of the withdrawal trial; to describe the ROX value closest to weaning from nasal high flow, and to identify factors associated with success or failure of the withdrawal trial from nasal high flow therapy in patients receiving nasal high flow therapy.

Our main objective is to collect feasibility data on helmet NIPPV and other clinical elements in to eventually prepare for a full scale randomized trial based on findings of this pilot study.

Respiratory volume monitor (RVM) (ExSpiron) is superior to continuous pulse oximetry in detection of postoperative respiratory depression in high risk patients.

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.