Active clinical trials for "Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn"

Recent evidence regarding the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) is growing in describing the characteristics of this disease, with main focus on lung morphology. Few data are available regarding the peripheral and respiratory muscular characteristics. Using a ultrasound greyscale analysis, It Is possibile to evaluated the muscle quality. The hypothesis of this studi is that a combined assessment of respiratory (i.e., intercostal and diaphragm) and peripheral (i.e., quadriceps) muscles quantity (as measured by thickness) and quality (as assessed by greyscale analysis), would reflect the severity of illness. Thus,the aims of this study are to assess if the quality characteristics of parasternal intercostal, diaphragm and quadriceps muscles of ICU COVID19 patients influenced the outcomes and are correlated with other variables, such as fluid or protein balance, or indexes of inflammation

Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is the most common respiratory cause of mortality and morbidity in very preterm infants, but it also could be seen in late preterm and term infants. Some genetic mechanisms were involved in the pathogenesis of RDS in late preterm and term infants. ATP-binding cassette transporter A3 (ABCA3) is essential for the production of pulmonary surfactant, whose mutation is the most common monogenetic cause of RDS in newborns. It also takes a vital role on unexplained RDS (URDS) in late preterm and term infants. Some previous studies showed that URDS with homozygous or compound heterozygous ABCA3 mutations had high mortality, while different mutation types could lead to different outcomes. However, most of the study focused on URDS with ABCA3 gene mutations, and there is no evidence that URDS without confirmed gene mutations have relatively better or worse outcomes. Furthermore, all the population in previous study are non-Asian races, which indicated that all the study conclusion is not applicable in Asia. Based on the next-generation sequencing technology, exome sequencing has been widely used in the clinic. In our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a clinic exome sequencing was usually performed in infants with fatal URDS. The present study was designed to compare the URDS with ABCA3 gene mutations with those without confirmed gene mutations and to establish the relationship between various ABCA3 gene mutations and variant RDS severity and outcomes.

Although most of the information focuses on understanding how the ventilator produces lung damage, the pulmonary factors that predispose to ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) have been less studied. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can adopt different morphological phenotypes, with its own clinical and mechanical characteristics. This morphological phenotypes may favor the development of VILI for same ventilatory strategy

Since the beginning of the SARS CoV 2 pandemia, the SARS CoV 2 was frequently compared with the seasonal influenza virus. However, few studies compared patients presenting acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by these viruses, with results being discordant. Our study means to compare mortality and morbidity of patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU) with ARDS induced by SARS CoV-2 and seasonal influenza.

PRactice of Ventilation and Adjunctive Therapies in COVID-19 Patients. An observational study of ventilation practice and adjunctive therapies in critically ill, invasively ventilated COVID-19 patients during the first and second surge of COVID-19 in the Netherlands.

The main objective is the study of the role of IL33/ST2 axis in the pathogenesis of ARDS, it´s value as prognosis marker and as therapeutic target.

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.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mechanical ventilation can lead to right ventricular dysfunction and ultimately right ventricular failure by increasing pulmonary vascular resistances and pressure load. This can be prevented by modifying ventilator settings, using vasopressors or inotropes or even by prone positionning.But to do so, right ventricular dysfonction has to be detected. Echocardiography has emerged as a first line tool to diagnose right heart failure. Recently, strain analysis showed promising results to detect early right ventricle abnormalities in other settings such as pulmonary hypertension or scleroderma. We therefore decided to determine whether 2D strain could help detect early right ventricular dysfunction in ARDS.

Experimental and observational studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency may be associated with an increased risk for non-bone diseases and/or abnormal development for the other systems of fetus. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between cord blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 (OH) D) concentrations and the subsequent risk of morbidities including RDS, PDA, NEC, BPD AND ROP in preterm infants.

There are various methods to generate the pressure needed for Nasal CPAP. Some neonatal intensive care units (NICU) use an underwater bubbling system and others use a ventilator to generate the pressure. There is no right or wrong way to generate the pressure and both methods are approved and accepted. The aim of this study is to compare the two systems of Nasal CPAP by placing the baby on each for a defined time period and reviewing the infant's vital signs. The investigators expect that the pressure generated by bubble CPAP will be better and lead to improved vital signs.