Active clinical trials for "Respiratory Distress Syndrome"

The investigators aim to compare four different lung recruitment techniques (described in literature) to Computed tomography scan analysis.

PALIVE 1 is an observational multicenter study on mechanical ventilation strategies used in children with an acute lung injury (ALI). The objective of the study is to describe mechanical ventilation strategies in children with an ALI. Our hypothesis is that daily clinical practice is heterogenous among pediatric intensivists as few pediatric data exists on optimal mechanical ventilation strategies in this group of patients. Furthermore, different strategies may affect patient outcome.

A advisory will be activated in the ICUs patient data management system. The trial will be conducted as observational cohort trial. During the first six month all patients with a LIPS ≥ 4 will be included in the control group. No change of care is needed. In a second phase during the next six months, all patients with a LIPS ≥ 4 will be included into the advisory group where advisories will be shown in the patient data management system. To create this advisory, a clinical advisory rule is executed every 4 hours and the appropriate advisory text is calculated. If the defined threshold values (driving pressure ≥ 15mbar) are reached, then the advisory displays a recommendation to rethink the patient's ventilation strategy. Furthermore, permissive hypercapnia and oxygen saturating limits considered as safe will be given. (paCO2: 55mmHg, pH: 7.25, paO2: 80 mmHg, SaO2: 92%)

This is an observational cohort study of the association between patient expectations for functional recovery and quality of life among acute respiratory failure survivors 6 months after hospital discharge.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the incidence of the ARDS in the French wounded soldiers.

The diaphragm is a fine striated muscle with both extra respiratory and respiratory functions. It does most of the breathing work in interaction with the accessory respiratory muscles, the rib cage and the abdomen. Its activity can be measured by the transdiaphragmatic pressure generated by the magnetic stimulation of phrenic nerves (gold standard). It has been shown in the literature that diaphragmatic ultrasound, via the measurement of diaphragmatic excursion and especially the thickening fraction, is an easily accessible, non-invasive, reproducible and relevant technique for evaluating acute diaphragmatic dysfunction in resuscitation patients. The objective of this project is to evaluate the prevalence of diaphragmatic dysfunction at admission in patients hospitalized in intensive care / respiratory intensive care unit for hypercapnic and/or hypoxic acute respiratory distress and requiring ventilatory support by non-invasive ventilation or high flow oxygen therapy. A subgroup analysis will then be carried out on 3 populations: Hypercapnic exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Hypoxic acute respiratory distress on infectious lung disease Acute pulmonary edema

The investigators describe a simple and efficient method to give a premedication in the delivery room, using the umbilical vein, directly punctured through Wharton's jelly.

Project summary: Objective: To test the hypothesis that administration of vaginal Misoprostol before elective cesarean section will improve the neonatal respiratory outcomes in late preterm and early term neonates through induction of catecholamine surge. Design: Randomized controlled clinical trial. Setting: Women health center ,Assiut university hospital. Patients: mothers planned for cesarean section at 34 - 37weeks. Intervention: two hundred and ninety two women will be randomly allocated to receive either 50 micrograms of Misoprostol per vagina within one hour before cesarean section (study group; n= 146) or receive nothing (control group; n = 146) . Main outcome measure: Apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes.

Research question: Are the ventilatory variables related to mechanical power associated with the outcome of subjects who received mechanical ventilation (MV) for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) secondary to pneumonia (NMN) due to COVID-19?

The investigators aim to achieve experts consensus on respiratory interventions in management of COVID-19 related acute respiratory failure (C-ARF).